THE 



Record of Athol, 



MASSACHUSETTS, 



Jn ^uj3pr£ssin0 Ih ^xtut '§,Mlmx, 



PREPARED FOR PUBLICATION 

BY A COMMITTEE OF T HE TOWN. 



TcUv\ T^O-f-e [\|<^y-^^ 



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BOSTON : 
PRINTED BY GEO. C. RAND & AVERY, 

1866. 



To THE 



WHO HASTENED TO THE RESCUE WHEN 

TREASON RAISED ITS HAND TO DRAW THE LIFE-BLOOD OF OUR 

BELOVED COUNTRY ; 

To THE 

FcLTnzlzes arid XzTidi^ed 

OF THESE HEROIC MEN, 
WHO CHEERED THEM ON IN THIS MIGHTY STRUGGLE TILL 

THE NATION WAS SAVED ; AND ESPECIALLY 

TO THE 

liXMOKY or THE '^BEAB 

WHO FELL IN THIS CONFLICT, AND SEALED THEIR 

ATTACHMENT TO LIBERTY AND RIGHT WITH THEIR BLOOD, 

THIS VOLUME IS 



I^espeatfully (2)ediaated. 






INTRODUCTION 



In presenting this Volume to the people of 
.- . lol and to her sons and daughters who resid- 

i ^ Isewhere still cherish a deep interest in all 
I i' appertains to her honor the undersigned 

>.ild make the following Statements respecting 

i Origin of the work, the object they have 

opt steadily in view while preparing it, the 

)urces of information to which they have had 

access and the assistance they have received in 

their difficult and responsible undertaking. 

In the Warrant for the Town Meeting of 
Athol for April 7. 1862, Article 4th was as fol- 
lows. 

" To see if the Town will choose a Committee 
to collect and preserve facts and incidents which 
may have a historic interest to the people of 
the Town as showing the part they have taken 
in aiding to suppress the Great Rebellion." 

At the Town Meeting held under this War- 



4 INTRODUCTION. 

rant it was " Voted to choose a Committee of 
three to collect and preserve such facts as they 
may think best ; and said Committee will work 
free of charge to the Town. Chose Rev. John 
F. Norton John M. Twichell and Dr. A. G. Wil- 
liams ; and then voted to add one and chose Dr. 
James P. Lynde." 

This Committee was organized by the appoint- 
ment of Rev. John F. Norton, Chairman, and 
Dr. J. P. Lynde Secretary. 

Dr. A. G. Williams having accepted a com- 
mission as a Surgeon in the Army, at a Town 
Meeting^ March 2. 1863 Mr. Charles W. Bannon 
was added to the Committee at the request of 
the other members. He had previously ren- 
dered much assistance in collecting and arran- 
ging many of the facts that relate to the early 
history of recruiting in Athol. 

At the Town Meeting Nov. 7. 1865, on mo- 
tion of Nathaniel Richardson Esqr it was "Voted 
that the Town authorize its Committee in charo-e 
to publish by subscription the Record entitled 
'Athol in Suppressing the Great Rebellion' with 
such changes as said Committee may deem de- 
sirable." 

" Voted that the Selectmen be authorized to 
subscribe in the name of the Town for Fifty 
Copies of the Record, provided it can be fur- 



INTRODUCTION. 5 

nished at a price not exceeding two dollars per 
copy." 

Immediately after its appointment the Com- 
mittee entered npon its work by collecting the 
names of all the soldiers who had enlisted from 
Athol and recordinoj the same with the Retri- 
ments and Companies with which they were 
connected. A record was also made of all that 
the Town had done during the year 1861 to 
encourage enlistments and also of the various, 
movements on the part of our citizens during 
the same period to give to our imperilled Union 
an efficient army. Since March 1862 the Record 
has been kept as events have transpired ; and 
in transcribing all this for the press, such addi- 
tional explanations have been made as a fulF 
and easy understanding of the whole matter 
seemed to require. 

It has been our object in preparing this Volume 
to collect and place upon record in an intelligible 
form such facts, and such only as may be of per- 
manent value. The history of such events as 
we have here undertaken to preserve soon be- 
comes confused amid the stirring life of our 
American people ; and it has been our aim to 
rescue this, so far as the Town of Athol is con- 
cerned, from being either corrupted by rumors 
of doubtful authority or lost in the ordinary 
course of human forge tfulness. Hardly a City 



6 INTRODUCTION. 

or Town in our land has in its possession a par- 
ticular and reliable history of what it did to 
maintain the cause of the American Revolution, 
of the sacrifices it made, of the heroes that it 
furnished, of the martyrs to liberty that went 
out from it never to return. What a value 
should we now attach to such a Record ! With 
what an interest should we turn over its almost 
sacred leaves ! Precisely such a history of the 
part Athol has taken in suppressing the Great 
Rebellion we have endeavored to furnish for 
those who shall come after us. It has been our 
aim to select the most important facts relative 
to our experience in tliis eventful struggle and 
to transmit them, in a legible form, to our chil- 
dren and children's children, that if they shall 
not know precisely what American Liberty cost 
at the fiirst, they may have at least some correct 
impressions respecting the sacrifices required for 
its preservation. That our judgment has never 
been in fault in selecting materials for this Vol- 
ume, we have not the presumption to suppose. 
Others would have omitted perhaps some things 
that we have inserted, and recorded upon these 
pages matters that we have not regarded as 
particularly important; all that we can say is 
that we have endeavored to preserve to the 
fullest extent possible, such facts and incidents 



INTRODUCTION. 7 

as we have deemed to be of the greatest perma- 
nent value. 

The general plan of the work, we have reason 
to suppose is all that can be desired. The Index 
of Soldiers' Names and the General Index will 
make the reference to any particular event or 
to the personal history of any Athol man who 
served in the Army or Navy, easy. 

The Historical Narrative will contain a faith- 
ful record of what the Town in its corporate 
capacity has done in furnishing men and means 
to maintain the struggle with treason, and with 
this not a little valuable information respecting 
the sacrifices of particular families and individu- 
als upon the altar of our Common Country, 

The Tables in which the men that we have 
furnished appear in their Regiments, Companies 
&c. present to the eye, at once, a multitude of 
interesting facts with which but few now can be 
supposed to be familiar and which those who 
shall come after us will deem invaluable. 

The pages upon which we have recorded the 
personal experience of Athol men in the war, 
and which have cost the Committee a vast 
amount of labor, will be interesting to the great 
mass of this community at any time ; but plainly 
they will be deemed more and more important 
as the actors in these scenes shall give place to 
other generations and our posterity shall ask 



8 INTRODUCTION. 

how their fathers demeaned themselves in the 
Great Conflict. This part of our Record we are 
confident presents but httle of which to be 
ashamed. 

With regard to the sources of information to 
which we have had access in preparing this Vo- 
lume we would say that in general they have 
been of the highest authority. In all possible 
cases official records have been consulted and 
carefully followed. The votes of the Town have 
been copied from the Town Records, and the 
proceedings of the Selectmen in all the matters 
appertaining to the aid rendered Soldiers' fami- 
lies and to the business of enlistments and pay- 
ing bounties, we have copied from their official 
papers. We have been also greatly aided by 
the Muster Rolls and Memorials of Companies, 
while in nearly every case the history of our 
men in the war has been obtained through per- 
sonal interviews or correspondence. In bringing 
together and arranging such a mass of materials 
mistakes have doubtless occurred, but we have 
constantly aimed to have every part of the Vo- 
lume worthy of confidence. 

For important aid rendered us in keeping this 
Record and now giving it to the public, our 
thanks are due to the Gentlemen who have con- 
stituted the Board of Selectmen of Athol since 
the commencement of the Great Rebellion. 



INTRODUCTION. 9 

Particularly have we received the most valuable 
assistance from Calvin Kelton Esqr who has been 
Chairman of this Board during the whole period 
covered by this history, with the exception of a 
single year. Mr Kelton's excellent business ha- 
bits which have rendered successful the adminis- 
tration of our Town affairs during these years 
of unexampled expenditure, have made a part 
of our labors in preparing this work comparative- 
ly easy, while in many cases of doubt we have 
freely availed ourselves of his valuable assistance. 
The work of brino-ino; tog-ether and arrano-ing^ in 
proper form the several amounts of money con- 
tributed to pay Citizen's Bounties under the dif- 
ferent calls for troops during the year 1864 has 
been willingly and successfully done at the sug- 
gestion of the Committee by Mr. Henry Martyn 
Humphrey and Mr. Lucian Lord. The value of 
the aid rendered us by these Young Gentlemen 
will appear by consulting the record commencing 
upon page 109. of this Volume. 

In procuring Subscribers for this Book we 
have been greatly assisted by Sergeant Enoch T. 
Lewis, Corporal Levi B. Fay, Jonathan Drury 
Esqr and by Messrs Isaac King, J. B. Wheeler, 
Ira Y. Kendall, Benjamin M. Twichell Jr., Cyrus 
Stockwell and Isaiah S. Merrill of Athol and Mr 
Dexter Aldrich of Boston. 

The other Members of the Committee deem it 



10 INTRODUCTION. 

due to their Chairman Rev. John F. Norton, to 
state that the labor of collecting most of the 
materials for this Volume, of making all the en- 
tries in the Book of Records and of preparing 
the whole for the press has been performed by 
him. 

JOHN F. NORTON 

JOHN M. TWICHELL 

ALFRED G. WILLIAMS I Committee. 

JAMES P. LYNDE 

CHARLES W. BANNON . 

Athol, Mass., Jan. 1866. 

Note. The Chairman of the Committee is alone responsible 
for any peculiarities in the typography of this Volume. 



SOLDIERS' INDEX. 



Regiment, &c., Personal History 

Page Page 

Adams, Patrick T 139 

Ames, Jeduthan W 124 141 

Ames, Andrew J 126 141 

Atwood, Lewis P. 125 142 

Ayers, Branch F 125 143 

Bangs, Adolphus 131 143 

Barber, Harding R 181 144 

Barton, Charles H 130 144 

Barney, Charles H 134 

Barry, T. G 126 145 

Batchelder, John L 138 

Beaman, Warren A 123 145 

Beard, William 129 146 

Bent, Edgar 135 44 

Billings, J. B 122 148 

Billings, David E 122 147 

Blackmer, H. R 126 148 

Bliss, John 139 

Bodet, Eli 130 149 

Boutwell, Otis B 131 149 

Boyd, Cheney • .' . . 125 150 

Bracewell, Joseph 126 150 

Briggs, John S 126 151 

Brock, Francis B 126 151 

Brock, Henry D 126 152 

Broderick, Michael 138 

Brown, Walter R 130 153 

Brown, John S 134 152 

Bruce, Daniel D 124 154 

Bruce, Daniel 124 

Brunt, John 124 



12 INDEX. 

Buckley, John 122 

Burns, Thomas 131 154 

Caldwell, Dennis 140 

Carter, George 125 154 

Casavant, Daniel 132 155 

Casavant, John M 130 156 

Caswell, Adin W 126 156 

Chamberlain, L. A 126 157 

Chamberlain, W. E 131 157 

Chartier, John 129 

Chase, Ephraim F. 132 158 

Chittenden C. W 125 

Chubb, Frederic A 130 158 

Clark, John S 135 159 

Clark, John 126 160 

Clark, George H 130 161 

Clark, George G 139 

Clutterbuck, W. L 122 162 

Clapp, Edward P 132 162 

Cleaveland, W. J 132 163 

Collins, Joseph H. . . 125 165 

Collins, Marshall 132 166 

Cobb, William 126 

Conant, C. W 132 163 

Conant, A. W 132 164 

Conley, John 122 

Conners, James 122 

Connell, James 130 164 

Cook, Vernon S 123 166 

Crawford, Linus 126 167 

Cummings, J. B 125 167 

Cummings, Frederic 122 168 

Cotton, James 134 

Currier, G. W 137 

Darling, H. W 127 168 



INDEX. 13 

Davis, A. S 126 169 

Davis, Otis E 130 169 

Derapsey, Patrick 123 170 

Dimock, Anthony V 132 171 

Donelly, Terrence 138 

Donelly, AVilliam 131 

Dora, John 140 

Doyle, John 131 173 

Dresser, George S 127 ' 171 

DriscoU, Jeremiah 137 

DroUett, Peter A 139 

Drury, George W 132 172 

Drury, Simeon S 132 172 

Dyer, Theodore J 126 174 

Eagan, James 139 

Emerson, John D 122 174 

Falvey, Joseph F 135 

Fay, Farwell F 131 176 

Fay, William G 132 178 

Fay, Freeborn R . 132 178 

Fay, Levi B 132 179 

Fay, Joseph F 128 179 

Fedley, liadley 140 

Fisher, Charles D 131 179 

Flagg, George A 127 

Follett, Leyton W 132 • 180 

Folly, Patrick 140 

Folsom, A. B 132 180 

Foster, Daniel W 131 180 

Foster, Elmer G 130 181 

Fouquet, Charles 138 

Fox, Columbus 122 181 

Fox, Patrick W 125 182 

Freeman, William 140 

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14 INDEX. 

French, Aurin B 122 183 

French, Van Buren 127 184 

Fry, William A 130 184 

Fry, Silas 135 44 

Fry, Charles H 135 44 

Gates, Irving C 139 

Gerard, Julius 137 

Giles, Sumner S 129 185 

Goddard, Alfred 133 186 

Goddard, Charles V. . - 132 

Gould, J. Orlando 132 186 

Grawad, John 122 

Green, Charles S 122 187 

Gray, Charles 127 187 

Guilfoyle, Michael 138 

Hager, Charles E 125 188 

Hale, Seth F 125 189 

Hand, James A 129 190 

Hanson, George R 128 190 

Haskins, Albert 126 

Haskins, James, Jr 129 190 

Hastings, Edwin C 137 192 

Hicks, John 122 

Hill, William 127 192 

Hill, Charles H 122 192 

Hill, Samuel A 125 193 

Hill, Andrew J 125 193 

Hill, Joseph •. 139 

Hodge, James S 127 194 

Hodge, Ahram 137 

Hohenfels, William 139 

Holmes, Edwin 139 

Holt, Aaron H 132 194 

Horton, Lovell H 126 194 

Horton, Albert 135 195 



INDEX. 15 

Howard, Joseph W 130 

Howard, Williird 139 

Howe, Gardner 130 195 

Howe, John W 127 196 

Hoyt, George H 187 197 

Hudson, Michael J 138 

HulFman, WilHam 124 

Hughes, William 138 

Humphrey, John 135 198 

Hunt, Horace 122 198 

Jackson, Nelson 139 

Jennings, Joseph E 135 199 

Jillson, Milton N 127 199 

Johnson, William H 125 200 

Johnson, Alfred 124 200 

Johnson, Thomas 122 200 

Johnson, Charles 122 

Johnson, Lewis 122 

Johnston, Henry 139 

Jones, John 129 

Judd, William A. * 132 201 

Judd, Arthur N 132 «& 140 201 

Keen, A 139 

Kelley, Daniel l22 

Kelley, James 122 201 

Kelton, C. Dwight 130 203 

Kendall, George L 127 202 

Kendall, Charles L 136 202 

Kendall, C. W 132 203 

Kennedy, William 140 

Kent, Charles, Jr 138 

Kennedy, George 140 

Kenney, Thomas 128 204 

Kenney, Owen 125 204 

Kilburn, Joseph W 136 204 



16 INDEX. 

King, Lauriston 1 132 205 

King, John 122 

Kneeland, Asa L. . 130 205 

Kneeland, Ebenezer 130 206 

Knowlton, C. Walter 130 207 

Lacy, Jolin 138 

Ladd, A. S 139 

Lamb, Guilford W 121 207 

Lamb, Zenas W 136 44 

Larned, Daniel W 127 208 

Leavett, William F 139 

Leonard, L'ving L L38 

Leonard, Patrick 125 209 

Lewis, Enoch T 133 209 

Lincoln, Elijah W 135 209 

Lincoln, George W 123 & 133 210 

Locke, Amos H 136 211 

Lord, Fernaldo L 127 210 

Lucas, Isaac 140 

Lynch, John 138 

Madden, John ft9 

Mars, J. N 137 212 

Maynard, Martin L 131 211 

Mayo, 31. C T 136 44 

McCartey, Thomas 122 

McClellen, H. W 127 212 

McCarron, Robert 137 

McCue, Michael 

McLaughlin, Edward 122 

Mcllae, George 133 220 

McKee, William 136 44 

Meachara, George W 127 213 

Meacham, Norris B 127 213 

Merrill, Isaiah S 137 214 

Merrill, John F 123 215 



INDEX. 17 

Merrill, James L 123 216 

Merrill, Joseph A 131 216 

Merrill, Henry S ,. 131 217 

Michael, George 139 

Mier, John 139 

Miller, Joseph 136 44 

Miller, Albert 136 44 

Mills, Jonathan B 131 218 

Moore, Edmond 127 219 

Moore, James A 133 219 

Moore, George F 133 219 

Mowry, John C 127 220 

Morse, George . . 127 221 

Morse, Henry T 128 221 

Morse, Leander B 128 222 

Morse, Frederic P 134 222 

Morse, John R 127 223 

Nelson, George W 130 223 

Nickerson, John F 135 224 

Nickerson, Joseph 135 224 

Nickerson, Ruel R 135 225 

Nute, William 122 225 

Oakes, Adin 133 225 

O'Brian, Robert 137 

Oliver, James, Jr 125 226 

Oliver, James, 2d 127 227 

Oliver, Aaron 127 228 

Oliver, Sylvanus E 127 228 

OUver, Otis 127 229 

Oliver, Franklin, Jr 127 229 

Oliver, Ozi 133 230 

Orcott, Ansell 125 230 

Packard, J. Henry 127 230 

Parker, James C 125 231 

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18 INDEX. 

Parkman, Chauncey, Jr 134 231 

Peckham, Emory A 127 231 

Pelkey, Peter 137 

Perry, Freeman G 133 232 

Phelps, Leander W 123 & 134 232 

Phelps, Foster W 128 233 

Phelps, Charles C 125 234 

Phelps, George R 136 44 

Phillips, Asa 129 234 

Pierce, John R 133 235 

Pond, Albert D 128 235 

Powers, Francis 138 

Plunkett, John 129 236 

Putnam, Rufiis 133 236 

Rand, John E 125 236 

Reardon, Patrick 129 

Rich, Joshua 131 237 

Rich, Samuel . . . ; 128 237 

Riely, John 140 

Richardson, William 128 238 

Richardson, James H 128 239 

Richardson, Delevan 123 239 

Ripley, Neri F 125 240 

Robbins, Harvey 128 241 

Rogers, William J 131 241 

Sadler, Jacob 139 

Sawin, Emory 131 242 

Sawin, Lewis H 135 242 

Sears, Charles 128 243 

Seaver, Cutler 140 243 

Severance, George R 125 244 

Shattuck, J. E 139 

Shepardson, W. A 125 244 

Sheriden, Charles 

Simouds, Albert 128 244 



INDEX. 19 

Simonds, Charles A 135 244 

Simonds, William 135 245 

Smith Henry N 134 246 

Smith, Warren E 133 246 

Smith Henry 128 247 

Smith, Joseph C 128 * 247 

Smith, Hubbard V 123 247 

Smith, William 137 

Smith, Thomas 123 

Smith, Charles 138 

Smith, William 138 

Southland, Henry H 133 248 

Sprague, John W 124 248 

Stanton, Peter 133 & 135 249 

Stevens, George W ' ] 37 250 

Stockwell, Harrison 133 250 

Stockwell, Spencer 133 250 

Stratton, Henry H 133 251 

Stratton, Frederic A 133 251 

Streeter, Charles 136 44 

Sullivan, Florence 134 252 . 

Taft, Charles E 125 252 

Teel, Clinton 135 252 

Tenney, George L 123 258 

Thayer, Horace 134 258 

Thompson, Thomas 139 

Thorpe, Lauriston A 128 253 

Thrower, William L 133 254 

Thrower, Robert W 128 254 

Tilden, Charles 129 254 

Townsend, Edward L 123 255 

Townsend, George D 128 255 

Townsend, Henry D 130 255 

Townsend, Harlan P 133 255 

Turner, William 1 123 256 



20 INDEX. 

Twicbell, Nathaniel B 128 256 

Twicbell, WillarJ 135 256 

Twicbell, William, Jr 136 44 

Twicbell, Benjamin M. Jr 136 44 

Tyler, Cbarj^s H 133 257 

Walker, Freeman H 133 257 

Walker, David 133 258 

Walters, Peter 138 

Ward, Ransom 137 258 

Ward, Jonathan D 125 258 

Wasbburn, William 131 259 

Wasbburn, Theodore 128 259 

Washburn, Oscar 128 259 

Weaver, Horace K 130 260 

Wetberby, Maxon B 124 260 

West, Edmund B 126 260 

Whitney, E. Whipple 128 261 

Whitney, Chandler 129 261 

Williams, Alfred G 123 262 

Williams, Henry 140 

Wilkinson, Moses 140 

Wilber, Walter 136 44 

Wilson, Charles 139 

Wood, Nelson G 128 262 

Wood, George B 138 263 

Woodward, Thomas A 129 263 

Wyman, Asa 131 263 

Young, Morgan 125 264 

Young, Daniel T 139 

Youngblood, Jacob 140 



GENERAL INDEX. 



Athol, War History of 23 

War Expenses of 119 

" Number of men furnished by 75 

Athol Men, In their Regiments, &c 122 

" Personal History of, in the War 141 

" Deaths of 79 

" Wounded . 80 

" " Prisoners ■ 80 

" " Surplus of at the close of the War 74 

Bounties, Citizens' Subscription for, 1862 50 

" " " " 1864 109 

Bounties Town in 1862 43 & 47 

" " 1864 72 

Company B 27. Reg. Organizzation of 27 

" " " " Departure of 29 

" " " Roll of 82 

" " " Band of 31 

" " " " Campaigns of 88 

" " " Deaths in 93 

" " " " Prisoners of 87 

Company E 53. Reg. Recruited 50 

" " " " Bounties for the men of 51 

" " " " Organized 53 

" •' " Roll of 94 

" " " " in Camp at Groton Junction. 54 

" " " " " " New York 54 

" " " Embarkation of, for N. Orleans 55 

" " " " Campaign of 98 

" " " Deaths in 103 

" " " Return of 64 & 101 

Conscription ordered in 1863 59 

" Names drawn in 61 

" Cost of Substitutes under 63 



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GENERAL INDEX. 



Enlistments, in 1861 25, 28, 29, 32 

" 1862 44, 49 

" 1863 and 1864 64 

Families, furnlsbing three or more soldiers ' 107 

Historical Narrative for 1861 23 

" 1862 38 

" 1863 59 

" 1864 68 

" 1865 78 

Morse, Laban, Agent at Newbern 40 

Officers, from Atbol, Commissioned 105 

" " " Non-commissioned 107 

Quota, for July 4, 1862, filled 42 

" Aug. 4, " " 49 

" " Feb. 1864 " 69 

" July, " " 72 

" Dec. " " 73 

Re-enlistments 69 

Representative Recruits 74 

Soldiers' Aid Society, Atbol 118 

Atbol Depot 119 

State and Town Aid, paid in 1861 36 

" " " " " " 1862 56 

" " " " " " 1863.... 65 

" " " " " " 1864 75 

" " " " " " 1865 80 

Town Meeting to encourage enlistments, Apri 30, 1861 24 

" '« " " July 10, " 27 

Nov. 5, " 32 

" " " " " Dec. 6, " 34 

" " " " Aug. 2, 1862 42 

" " " " " 28, " 47 

" " " " Sept. 18, " 56 

April 16,1864 70 

" " " " " June 4, " 70 

" " " " " Aug. 6, " 72 

Dec. 31, " 73 

" » .< << May 9, 1863 59 



HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. 



THE people of Atliol, Mass., in common with 
all their loyal countrymen, were filled with 
amazement and the most gloomy apprehensions, 
by the bombardment of Fort Sumter, a fortress 
of the United States, in the harbor of Charleston, 
S.C. The attack upon this fort, which was the 
opening scene of the Great Rebellion, was made 
April 12, 1861 ; and the little garrison, under the 
heroic Col. (afterwards Gen.) Robert Anderson, 
surrendered to the rebel hosts that assailed it, 
after a bold resistance for the space of about 
thirty-six hours. 

Washington was at once menaced by an army 
of rebels that poured into Virginia. But a few 
days elapsed before Massachusetts men were 
shot in the streets of Baltimore, while on their 
way to rescue the National Capital. The whole 
South was in commotion ; and every hour the 
rebel cause gained strength, till it assumed the 
most frightful proportions. 



24 THE RECORD OF ATHOL [1861. 

The news of these events aroused all the pa- 
triotism of the North ; and the people of Athol 
determined to do their part for the support of 
our government against the mighty combination 
that threatened to destroy it. From all parts of 
the town men, women and children came to- 
gether to raise and honor the glorious flag of 
our Union, and to determine upon the course 
of action which the crisis demanded. Proces- 
sions w^ere formed, and the gatherings in different 
parts of the town were large and enthusiastic. 

At a public meeting in the Town Hall, on the 
evening of April 19, 1861, a number of young 
men came forward, and offered themselves for 
the formation of a military company. Forty or 
more were ready to leave at once to defend the 
Nation's Capital. The process of drilling was 
commenced ; but, after more mature deliberation, 
the formation of a military company was post- 
poned for a season. It should be remarked, 
however, that most of the individuals who of- 
fered themselves as soldiers from Athol at that 
early period, subsequently enlisted and were 
mustered into the service of the United States, 
in different companies and regiments of the 
Massachusetts Volunteers. 

April 30, 1861. — At a town-meeting legally 
called, Calvin Kelton Esq., being moderator, 
upon the recommendation of a committee, con- 



1861.] IN SUPPRESSING THE GREAT REBELLION. 25 

sisting of C. C. Bassett Esq., Hon. Charles Field, 
Nathaniel Richardson Esq., L. W. Ilapgood Esq. 
and Mr. John Kendall, it was voted, " that five 
thousand dollars be appropriated " for the pur- 
pose of encouraging men to volunteer for military 
service; and "that ten dollars per month be given 
to each unmarried volunteer, and twenty dollars 
to each married volunteer, in addition to the pay 
insured them by the laws of the United States. 
And, "if more be necessary to support the fami- 
lies of the married volunteers, the committee is to 
make up the deficiency. The volunteers above 
referred to are those from Athol, called the Athol 
Compaii}^ of Volunteers." 

The meeting at which the votes above men- 
tioned were taken was large ; and the voters of 
Athol were nearly unanimous in making the 
appropriation. 

If any discover a lack of definiteness and le- 
gal precision in this early action of the town 
to encourage enlistments in the army, it should 
be remembered that all was new and strang-e. 
and that the excitement of the people under 
which this meeting was held was intense. 
Whatever else was wanting at that early day^ 
the people of Athol did not lack the spirit of 
self-denial and genuine patriotism. 

Enlistments soon commenced. The first to 
leave their homes for the camp and the years of 



26 THE RECORD OF ATHOL [1861. 

hard service before them were sixteen young 
men, who joined the Second Regiment of Massa- 
chusetts Volunteers, under Col. George H. Gor- 
don. This regiment was in camp at West Rox- 
bury, from May to July 8, 1861, when it received 
marching orders, and left for the Upper Poto- 
mac. 

The first man from Athol who signed the en- 
listment-roll, and was mustered into the United 
States service, was Leander W. Phelps, one of 
the sixteen above named. The names of these 
young men are here given as follows : Leander 
W. Phelps, David E. Billiugs, J. B. Billings, Del- 
evan Richardson, Hubbard V. Smith, Edward L. 
Townsend, Charles H. Hill, Charles S. Green, 
Columbus Fox, William L. Clutteibuck, Horace 
Hunt, William Nute, Frederic Cummings, John D. 
Emerson, Thomas Johnson and Aurin B. French. 
The services of these young men, who have the 
honor of having their names at the head of the 
long list of Athol soldiers, will be detailed at 
considerable length in other parts of this record. 
The Tenth Regiment went to the seat of war 
a few days later than the Second, and in this 
were two young men from Athol ; viz., John F. 
Merrill and James L. Merrill. These soldiers, 
who did good service, belonged to Company H, 
recruited in Shelburne. 

Before any money was actually used under 



1861.] IN SUPPEESSING THE GREAT REBELLION. 27 

the vote of the town at the meeting, April 30, 
1861, another meeting of the legally qualified 
voters of Athol was called " To see if the town 
will raise and appropriate money for the support 
of the flxmilies of those residents who have en- 
listed, or may enlist, and go into the service of 
the United States Government, according to the 
provisions of a recent statute of the Common- 
wealth." This meeting was holden July 10, 1861, 
and was not largely attended by the voters of 
Athol. Its action was, however, very important, 
as will be seen by the votes that were passed as 
follows : — 

" Voted, That two dollars per week shall be 
paid out of the treasury of the town to the 
wife or parent of any inhabitant of the town, 
who has enlisted or may enlist in the service of 
the United States Government during the pres- 
ent war, provided such wife or parent was or is 
dependent upon such inhabitant for support. 

" Voted, That one dollar per week shall be paid 
out of the treasury of the town to each child, 
under sixteen years of age, of any inhabitant of 
the town, who has enlisted or may enlist in the 
service of the United States Government durimi; 
the present war, who is dependent upon said pa- 
rent for support. 

" Voted, In case of sickness of any inhabitant 
entitled to benefit according to the previous sec- 



28 THE RECORD OF ATHOL . [18C1. 

tions, the expenses of medical attendance shall 
be paid out of the treasury of the town. 

^' Voted, That the amount due the above inha- 
bitants shall be paid monthly, or oftener, if 
needed." 

Under the above-mentioned action of the 
town, enlistments soon began to be numerous, 
the men connecting themselves with the various 
regiments that were assembling in different parts 
of the Commonwealth. Twenty-three at this 
time joined the Twenty-first Regiment, which 
was recruited at Camp Lincoln, Worcester. This 
regiment, which did good service for three years, 
left for the seat of war, Aug. 22, 1861, and took 
charge of the railroad leading from Annapolis, 
Md., to Baltimore and Washington. Most of 
the twenty-three men who went with it from 
Athol were connected with Company A, which 
was recruited in Templeton, and commanded 
by Capt, and afterwards Major and Lieut.-Col. 
George P. Ilawkes. This company was called 
" The Adams Guards." The names of these men, 
and a brief account of their services and suffer- 
ings, will be found in their proper place in this 
record. 

Soon after the Twenty-first Regiment left for 
AnnapoHs, viz. in September, 1861, another and 
successful eflbrt was made to recruit a company 
in Athol and vicinity, to be commanded by Adin 



1861.] IN SUPPRESSING THE GREAT REBELLION. 29 

W. Caswell. This gentleman, who had already 
had some experience in military matters, under- 
took this work ; and, in the short space of ten 
days, the requisite number of men was obtained. 
The examination of these recruits was made by 
Dr. A. G. Williams of Athol, who was commis- 
sioned for this purpose. On the 4th of October, 
1861, which was the day of the Annual Cattle- 
show and Fair, a dinner was given to this com- 
pany on the Common at Athol ; and the men 
were addressed from the balcony of the Summit 
House. Dr. James P. Lyiide presided and ad- 
dressed the soldiers and the immense audience 
which assembled. A sword, sash, &c., were 
presented to Capt. Caswell, Hon. Charles Field 
making the address of presentation. Capt. Cas- 
well responded, and addresses were afterwards 
made by Hiram Woodward Esq. of Orange ; 
James Brooks Esq. of Petersham; J. H. God- 
dard Esq., Editor of " The Barre Gazette ; " Piev. 
I. S. Lincoln, of Warwick ; Rev. A. Harding, of 
New Salem ; and Calvin Kelton Esq., Chairman 
of the Board of Selectmen ; Rev. Ira Bailey and 
Rev. John F. Norton, of Athol. A patriotic poem, 
which he had prepared for the occasion, was re- 
cited by Rev. D. J. Mandell, also of Athol. Bou- 
quets of flowers were presented to all the sol- 
diers composing the company, by young ladies 
who volunteered for this service ; while patriotic 



30 THE RECORD OF ATHOL [18G1. 

songs, in wblcli a multitude of voices joined, en- 
livened the occasion. The exercises at the Sum- 
mit House were closed with prayer by Rev. J. F. 
Norton ; and almost the entire assembly went 
with the company to the depot, where the sol- 
diers took the cars for the encampment at Spring- 
field. The Athol Cornet Band was present during 
the day, and added to its interest ; while the 
Athol High School Guard, under the command 
of the master of said school, Mr. Andrew J. Lath- 
rop, Avith fifty mounted men of Athol, and nearly 
the same number from Royalston, did escort duty. 
The company left with the cheers and benedic- 
tions of the assembled multitude. 

At Springfield, these soldiers were mustered 
into the service of the United States, and con- 
stituted Company B of the Twenty-seventh Regi- 
ment, Massachusetts Volunteers. 

The chief oflicers of this regiment, which left 
Camp Reed, Springfield, for Annapolis, Md., Nov. 
2, 1861, were as follows: — 

Horace C. Lee, Springfield, Colonel ; Luke Ly- 
man, Northampton, Lieutenant-Colonel; William 
M. Brown, Major; George W. Bartlett, Green- 
field, Adjutant ; George A. Otis, Springfield, Sur- 
geon; Samuel Camp, Great Barrington, Assistant- 
Surgeon ; Rev. Miles Sanford, Adams, Chaplain. 

The regiment was known as the Second ^ye.st- 
ern Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers. The 



18G1.] IN SUPPRESSING THE GREAT REBELLION. 31 

commissioned officers of Company B were as fol- 
lows : — 

Aclin W. Caswell, Athol, Captain ; Parker W. 
McManiis, Davenport, la., First Lieutenant ; Lov- 
ell II. Horton, Atliol, Second Lieutenant. 

At a later period, while the regiment was at 
Annapolis, a dinner was given to Company B 
by its friends in Athol and vicinity, the part 
from Athol being despatched by express in 
thirteen large packages. 

In the band of music attached to the Twenty- 
seventh Regiment were six young gentlemen 
fi-om Athol ; viz., Thomas Kenney, Joseph F. Fay, 
William Richardson, Henry T. Morse, Leander 
B. Morse, and George R. Hanson. The four last 
mentioned were, at a later period, attached to 
other regiments in the same department of ser- 
vice. The names of all the men belongiuij: to 
Company B will be given in the history of the 
services of that resriment. 

o 

Later in the year 1861, arrangements were 
made to recruit another company in Athol and 
vicinity for the Butler Expedition ; but, through 
a misunderstanding between the State Executive 
and Major-Gen. Butler, the proposed regiment 
was not raised, and the matter was dropped 
while the prospects for the recruiting of the 
company were good. A number of men from 
Athol, however, enlisted for the Thirtieth and 



32 THE RECORD OF ATHOL [1861. 

Thirty-first Regiments, that went to Ship Island 
in the Gulf of Mexico, and afterwards to New 
Orleans under Gen. Butler. 

During the autumn of 1861, a number of 
young men from Athol enlisted for the First 
Battalion of Infintry, which was stationed at 
Fort Warren, Boston Harbor. This battalion, 
which was raised with special reference to garri- 
son duty at Fort Warren, and for guarding the 
political and war prisoners confined there, in 
1862 became the Thirty-second Reo;iment of 
Massachusetts Volunteers, and did good service 
till the close of the war. 

In the warrant for the town-meeting in Athol 
Nov. 5, 1861, the fourth article was as follows : — 

" To see if the town will rescind any or all 
votes passed at a town-meeting held on the tenth 
day of July, 1861, whereby they voted to pay a 
certain amount to the families of volunteers ; and 
also for medical expenses of the same in case of 
sickness." 

At the meeting held under this warrant it was 
" Voted, 1. That as to all inhabitants who may 
hereafter, as members of the volunteer militia of 
this State, be mustered into or enlisted in the 
service of the United States, there shall be raised, 
and, under the direction of the selectmen, paid 
for the aid of the wife, parent, or children under 
sixteen years of age, who are dependent upon 



1861.] IN SUPPRESSING THE TxREAT REBELLION, 33 

such soldier for support, a sum not exceeding 
one dollar per week ; provided the whole sura 
paid for all those persons so dependent upon 
such inhabitant shall not exceed twelve dollars 
per month. 

" Voted, 2. So for as it relates to those already 
enlisted and now in the service of the United 
States, the medical attendance of the flxmilies 
shall be under the direction, and paid for at the 
discretion, of the selectmen. 

" Voted, 3. That nothing be paid to the families 
of any volunteers, who were not inhabitants of 
the town for one month at least before enlisting 
into the service of the United States; and this 
shall apply to all past as well as future enlist- 
ments. 

" Vuted, 4. That all votes passed on the tenth 
day of July, 1861, so flir as the same are incon- 
sistent with the above votes, are repealed." 

To understand the action of the town in pass- 
ing the votes above recorded at the meeting, 
Nov. 5, 1861, it should be remembered that the 
State had assumed the payment of the aid to 
soldiers' flimilies, but not to exceed twelve dol- 
lars per month to any family, however large it 
might be. Of course, the town of Athol was 
bound to pay all that had been promised to the 
soldiers who had been mustered into the United 
States service before the above-mentioned meet- 



34 THE EECORD OF ATBOL ~ [1861. 

ing of Nov. 5 ; but the object aimed at was to 
reduce the amount of aid offered, in case of fu- 
ture enlistments, to the sum promised by the 
State ; viz., to twelve dollars per month. 

To understand the third vote passed at the 
meeting of Nov. 5, it should be mentioned, that 
as the town of Athol was paying, under the 
votes of July 10, to soldiers with large families, 
more 'than was offered by the adjoining towns, 
an inducement was offered to soldiers already in 
the service, from other places, who had large fa- 
milies, to remove to Athol for the purpose of 
securing a larger sum of weekly or monthly aid. 
The Vote No. 3, above recorded, was designed to 
prevent any movement of this kind. 

But as there was still some doubt in regard to 
the bearing of the votes passed at the town- 
meeting, Nov. 5, 18G1, upon individual cases, 
another town-meeting was called for Dec. 6, 
1861; and, at this meeting, it was 

" Voted, 1. That there shall be paid out of the 
treasury of the town, under the direction of the 
selectmen, such sums of money as the selectmen 
shall deem necessary, not exceeding two dollars 
per week, for the aid of the wife or parent, and 
one dollar per week for the aid of each child 
under sixteen years of age, of any one of the 
inhabitants of said town, who, as members of the 
volunteer militia of this State, may have been 



1861.] IN SUPPRESSING THE GREAT REBELLION. 36 

mustered into the service of the United States 
between the fifteenth day of May, 1861, and the 
fifth day of November, 1861 ; provided such wife, 
parent, or child was dependent on such inha- 
bitant for support. 

^^ Voted, 2. That all votes passed on the tenth 
day of July last, inconsistent with the above 
vote, are hereby rescinded. 

The first vote above recorded, Avhile it affirmed 
the action of the town in the first vote of the 
meeting of July 10, so far as this related to 
the families of soldiers enlisting before Nov. 5, 
1861, was chiefly important, because, conforming 
to the statute, it left the business of paying the 
money voted b}^ the town to soldiers' families in 
the hands of the selectmen. Care and discre- 
tion were requisite in conducting this matter 
properly, and it was wisely required that this 
duty should devolve upon the selectmen. 

For the year 1861, the Athol board of select- 
men consisted of Calvin Kelton, Esq., chairman, 
A. L. Cheney, and John Kendall. 

During the year 1861, or the first year of the 
war, twenty-eight individuals or families received 
money from the town under the several votes 
which had been passed for the aid of such as 
might be dependent upon Athol soldiers for 
support. The names of the soldiers, with the 
amounts received by their respective families, 



36 



THE RECORD OF ATHOL 



[1861. 



and the part of the same refunded to 


the town 


by the State, are 


here given as 


follows 


: — 






Whole 


Refunded 




To aid, 


Amounts. 


by the State. 


Lewis P. Atwood, 


Wife, 


$18.00 


9.00 


J. B. Billings, 


Mother, 


64.00 


32.00 


John S. Briggs, 


Wife & Children, 


76.28 


34.80 


Eli Bodet, 


Wife & Children, 


14.80 


14.80 


Francis B. Brock, 


Father, 


12.14 


12.14 


W. L. Clutterbuck, 


Wife & Child, 


54.00 


36.00 


J. B. Cummings, 


Wife & Child, 


59.14 


39.57 


John M. Casavant, 


Wife & Children, 


13.60 


13.60 


Joseph H. Collins, 


Wife, 


39.14 


19.57 


Patrick Dempsey, 


Wife & Children, 


85.00 


79.60 


Aurin B. French, 


Wife & Child, 


96.00 


64.43 


Patrick W. Fox, 


]\Iother, 


39.14 


19.57 


Gardner Howe, 


Wife & Children, 


14.40 


14.40 


George W. Meacham, 


Wife & Children, 


102.84 


35.20 


George Morse, 


Wife, 


25.71 


12.85 


John 0. IMorey, 


Wife & Children, 


96.00 


32.80 


Norris B. Meacham, 


Wife, 


24.28 


12.14 


Edmund Moore, 


Mother, 


25.14 


12.57 


George W. Nelson, 


AVife & Child, 


9.72 


9.72 


James C. Parker, 


Wife & Children, 


105.00 


57.20 


Asa Phillips, 


Wife, 


10.00 


00.00 


William Richardson, 


Wife & Child, 


35.53 


25.81 


N. F. Ripley, 


Child, 


19.57 


9.71 


James H. Richardson, 


Wife & Children, 


50.86 


26.06 


Horace K. Weaver, 


Wife & Child, 


10.56 


10.56 


Morgan Young, 


Wife, 


38.57 


19.28 


Samuel A. Hill, 


AVife, 


37.43 


18.71 


William H. Johnson, 


Mother, 


37.43 


18.71 



The amount paid to the families of volunteers 
by the town of Athol, during the year 18G1, was 
therefore $1,214.28, of which there was reim- 
bursed by the State $690.70. 



1861.] IN SUPPRESSING THE GREAT REBELLION. 37 

During the year 1861. the President of the 
United States issued three calls for troops to 
suppress the Kebellion. The first, April 16, 
1861, was for seventy-five thousand men, for 
three months' service: the second. May 2, 1861, 
was for six regiments from Massachusetts, to serve 
for three years or for the war. 

The third call, bearing date June 17, 1861, was 
for ten regiments, to serve for three years, or the 
war. The quotas for the several cities and towns 
in Massachusetts were not assigned under these 
calls ; but it is believed that the number of men 
due from Athol was furnished. 

At the close of the year 1861, Athol had in 
the service ninety-eight men enlisted for three 
years, or for the war, viz. two commissioned offi- 
cers, Capt A. W. Caswell and second Lieut. L. 
H. Horton of Company B Twenty-seventh Regi- 
ment and ninety-six privates. Two of these, 
John Humphrey and Elijah W. Lincoln, were in 
the navy, while seven men had joined the regu- 
lar army and were assigned to the eleventh 
United States Infantry. 

The year 1861 closed with the rebels unsub- 
dued and the Rebellion strong and defiant. 
Meanwhile, Major-Gen. McClellan had brought to- 
gether a large army in the vicinity of Washing- 
ton, which was constantly gaining in discipline 
and efficiency and Major-Gen. Burnside was col- 



38 THE RECORD OF ATHOL [18G2. 

lectiilg troops at Annapolis to Ml in due time 
upon the coast of North Carolina. 



1862. 

At the opening of the year 18G2, Atliol having 
furnished between sixty and seventy men for 
the Burnside Expedition, which was about leaving 
Annapolis for some point upon the Southern 
coast, all eyes were turned toward that quarter 
with the deepest interest. The Twenty-first Re- 
giment, in which Athol had twenty-three men, 
went on board the steamer " Northerner," Jan. 6. 
The Twenty-fifth Regiment, in which Athol had 
four men- embarked at Annapolis, Jan. 7 ; while 
the Twenty-seventh Regiment, in which we had 
forty-one enlisted men, embarked Jan. 6. Jan. 11, 
1862, all had arrived at Hampton Roads; and all 
sailed for the South under sealed orders, Jan. 12. 
A terrible storm was encountered on the passage, 
in which the transports were separated from one 
another and in imminent danger of shipwreck ; 
while the men on board suffered greatly. Hat- 
teras Inlet on the coast of North Carolina havino; 
been at length gained and the bar there having 
been finally crossed, the battle of Roanoke Island 
was fought and won on the 8th of February, 1862. 
In this, the men from Athol who were able to 



1862.] IN SUPPRESSING THE GREAT REBELLION. 39 

leave the transports were engaged, and exposed 
to a severe fire from the enemy. A cold drench- 
ing rain fell after they had reached the shore, 
while their course in marching to the attack lay 
through almost impenetrable thickets and miry 
swamps. Standing in the water, sometimes up 
to their knees and even higher, while fighting 
the enemy, some of our soldiers contracted colds 
from which they never recovered, as will be seen 
by turning to their personal history as contained 
in this record. William Hill Company B Twenty- 
seventh Regiment, was the first man killed in ac- 
tion from Athol, and he fell at the capture of 
Roanoke Island. Patrick Leonard of ComjDany 
A Twenty-first Regiment, was also mortally 
wounded in the same conflict. Capt. Caswell 
being sick and on board a transport. Company B 
of the Twenty-seventh Regiment was led in this 
its first engagement w^ith the rebels by first Lieu- 
tenant, Parker McMannus. 

March 11. 1862, the regiments composing the 
Burnside Expedition embarked from Roanoke 
Island and on the 13th landed in the vicinitj^ of 
Newbern. On the 14th they engaged the ene- 
my and captured that city after a bloody battle. 
Of Company A Twenty-first Regiment, two men, 
viz. James C. Parker and William H. Johnson, 
both of Athol, were killed in that engagement, 
while a number of others were severely wounded. 



40 THE RECORD OP ATHOL [18G2. 

Company B of the Twenty-seventh Regiment 
was bravely led at Newbern by Capt. Caswell. 
All of the soldiers from Athol were in the thick- 
est of the fight on that occasion, and did their 
duty manfully. On Thursday, March 20, the 
reports of the sufferings and loss, as well as vic- 
tory of our men in North Carolina having reached 
Athol, a meeting of the citizens was held on 
the evening of that day. Rev. John F. Norton 
presided, and Mr. C. W. Bannon was chosen sec- 
retary. After various proposals, Laban Morse 
Esq. was appointed the agent of the people of 
Athol, to repair at once to Newbern and to aid, 
in every possible way. our sick and wounded sol- 
diers. Mr. Morse left the next morning, March 
21; two hundred and twenty-seven dollars hav- 
ing been contributed in a few hours to meet his 
expenses and to enable him most effectually to 
carry out the object of his mission. He arrived 
at Newbern, March 25, and was most joj'fully 
greeted by our soldiers. Of money, there was 
scarcely any in the regiments, and the aid that 
Mr. Morse carried to them was timely. Every 
delicacy that he could procure for the sick and 
wounded was obtained, and the suffering soldiers 
from other towns were cared for equally with 
our own. Sleeping, rolled in his blanket, upon 
the floor in the hosj^tital, that he might be ready 
for any service, Mr. Morse devoted all his ener- 



1862.] IN SUPPEESSING THE GREAT REBELLION. 41 

gies to the welfare of the soldiers ; and the many 
whom he was permitted to relieve and comfort 
will ever hold his name in grateful remembrance. 
After an absence of a little more than five weeks, 
he returned with a number of sick and wounded 
soldiers, and at a public meeting called to hear 
his Teport, May 5, 1862, a vote of thanks to him 
for his faithful and laborious service was unani- 
mously passed. Money for the relief of the 
suffering under his command was left by Mr. 
Morse with Capt. Caswell, and from the funds 
which remained unexpended by him at the time 
of his return, assistance was, at a later period, 
rendered to our sick and exposed soldiers in va- 
rious companies. 

During the absence of Mr. Morse and at his 
suggestion, boxes of valuable hospital-stores 
were sent by the friends of the soldiers in 
Athol to our men in North Carolina, consigned 
to Dr. Otis, Surgeon of the Twenty-seventh Reg- 
iment. 

It should be mentioned in this connection, that 
Mr. Morse declined any renumeration for his 
time and service as our aa-ent in North Caro- 

o 

lina. 

Early in the year 1862, the work of suppress- 
ing the Eebellion was most vigorously prose- 
cuted at the West ; and, in April of that year. 
New Orleans was captured from the rebels, and 



42 THE RECORD OF ATHOL [1862. 

the mouth of the Mississippi opened. Athol 
had a number of men in the army of Major- 
Gen. Butler, that was engaged in this important 
work. 

May 28, 1802, another call was made by the 
President of the United States upon the Govern- 
or of this Commonwealth for additional troops, 
— three regiments of infantry to serve for three 
years, or till the end of the war, and one com- 
pany of light artillery to serve for six months 
were asked for. Measures were at once adopted 
to furnish these, though recruiting at this time 
in Athol was not rapid. 

July 4, 1862, the President issued an order 
for three hundred thousand volunteers to serve 
for three years, or until the end of the war, and 
with these, new regiments were to be formed 
and the ranks of such as were already in 
service were to be filled. The proportion as- 
signed to Massachusetts was fifteen thousand 
men. The assessors' returns of the men liable 
to do military duty in the Commonwealth were 
used as the best basis that could then be obtained 
for deci^ding upon the number of men which each 
city and town ought to furnish. Under this call, 
the number assigned to Athol was forty-eight ; 
and Aug. 2, 18G2, a town-meeting was held to 
'encourage enlistments. 

At this meeting, the following preamble was 



18f)2.] IN SUPPRESSING THE CxEEAT REBELLION. 43 

adopted, and the vote under it unanimously 
passed. 

" Whej-eas, On the 4th day of July last, the 
President of the United States issued his Procla- 
mation calling for three hundred thousand vol- 
unteers to be enlisted for three years ; and 

" IV/iereas the proportion or quota of such vol- 
unteers to be furnished by the town of Athol, in 
case of a draft, has been officially stated to be 
forty-eight : therefore 

" Voted, That the selectmen of Athol be author- 
ized, in behalf of the town, to pay a bounty of 
one hundred dollars to every inhabitant of the 
town who shall have enlisted since July 7, 1862, 
or shall hereafter, on or before the 16th day of 
August, 1862, enlist into said service, until the 
number equal to said quota shall be fully made 
up. Such payment shall be made as each of 
said volunteers shall be mustered into the ser- 
vice by the proper United States authority, and 
in the order that their names shall be returned, as 
so mustered, to the selectmen by any recruiting 
officer ; provided however, that no bounty shall 
be paid by this town to any one who has re- 
ceived, or who is entitled to receive, a bounty 
from any other town or city." 

Provision was made at the same meeting for 
raising the money that might be needed to pay 
bounties under the above vote of the town ; and, 



44 THE RECORD OF ATHOL [1862. 

in the course of a few days, forty-one men en- 
listed from Athol, received the promised bounty 
of one hundred dollars each, and were assigned 
to the different regiments of Massachusetts vol- 
unteers already in service, or helped to fill new 
regiments. Twelve of these joined Company B 
of the Twenty-seventh Regiment; and the same 
number became connected with the various com- 
panies of the Thirty-sixth Regiment, which was 
recruited in Worcester County, and left Worces- 
ter for Washington, Sept. 2, 1862. This regi- 
ment became a part of Gen. Burnside's army, 
which was then in camp near Sharpsburg, Md. 

As this seems the proper place for inserting it, 
we here give the history of thirteen men, who 
at this time enlisted, and received each a bounty 
of a hundred dollars from Athol, but were never 
assigned to particular regiments, or in actual ser- 
vice, though for obvious reasons they were cre- 
dited to this town, and helped to fill our quota. 

The names of these men are as follows : — 

Charles Streeter. Benjamin M. Twichell, jun. 

Silas Fry. George R. Phelps. 

Charles H. Fry. Zenas W. Lamb. 

Edgar Bent. Walter Wilber. 

Joseph Miller. William McKeo. 

Albert Mller. William Twichell, Jun. 
M. C. Mayo. 

These men went to Worcester with others 
wJio were about to enter the service, and were 



1862.] IN SUPPEESSING THE GEEAT REBELLION. 45 

there examined by, as they supposed, the proper 
authorities, and accepted as able-bodied soldiers. 
After being sworn in, but before signing any pa- 
pers, they received their respective bounties of 
a hundred dollars each. As it was desired that 
these men should join regiments already in the 
field, they were then sent to Camp Day at Cam- 
bridge, with the exception of William Twichell, 
who remained at Worcester, but was not permit- 
ted to join any company that was leaving for 
the seat of war, and was finally sent home as one 
upon whom the Government had no claim. 

At Camp Day, the men were re-examined, and 
all (with the exception of Joseph Miller) were 
declared unfit for service, and at length were 
permitted to return home. Silas Fry was rejected 
because he was too old ; two or more, because 
they were too young ; and the others, for various 
disabilities ; while all were furnished with the 
proper certificates. Joseph Miller had permis- 
sion to come home for the purpose of entering a 
company of nine-months' men about to be formed 
in Athol but was prevented from so doing at 
that time by sickness. Some time after, a Lieuten- 
ant Shaw, said to be from Shrewsbury, came to 
Athol and notified ten of these men that they 
were wanted in Boston ; telling some of them 
that there was a misunderstanding about their 
coming home, and others that the matter of 



46 THE RECORD OF ATHOL [18G2. 

back pay was to be settled. Mr. Lamb was not 
notified; Mr. McKee was not found, and Mr. Mayo 
was not in town. The ten men went to Boston, 
and were taken by the Lieutenant in charge to 
the Hancock House. Mr. Wilber at once made 
known his case to the proper authorities, and was 
not again molested. Messrs. Fry, Bent, Streeter 
and William Twichell, were lodged in jail, and, 
after being handcuffed with a company of desert- 
ers, W'Cre put to work at Fort Independence. 
There they remained twenty-three days, poorly 
fed, and shamefully treated in every respect, 
till finally a friendly surgeon made known their 
case to the proper authorities, and an order came 
for their release, when they came home, paying 
their own expenses. 

Messrs. B. M. Twichell, jun., Joseph Miller, Al- 
bert Miller, and George R. Phelps were taken on 
to Washington and from thence to Alexandria, 
Va., to the camp for recruits. Two or three 
times they w^ent through the process of being 
mustered in to receive pay, but never received 
any, as their names did not appear upon the 
rolls. At length, upon a proper representation 
of their case, the Adjutani^General of Massachu- 
setts and Provost-Marshal obtained their release 
as men "not in the service;" and they came 
home, paying their own expenses. 

Whether Lieut. Shaw acted in good faith in 



1862.] IN SUPPRESSING THE GREAT REBELLION. 47 

his treatment of these men, it is not for those 
in charge of this record to decide ; but that a 
most grievous wrong was inflicted upon them, 
there can be no question. 

The President of the United States having is- 
sued, Aug. 4, 1862, an additional call for three 
hundred thousand men to serve for the space of 
nine months, and to be raised by draft, at a town- 
meeting on the 28th day of August, 1862, action 
was taken as follows : — 

" W/iereas, By a recent call by the President of 
the United States, bearing date Aug. 4, 1862, it 
was ordered that three hundred thousand men 
be drafted from the enrolled militia of the sev- 
eral States to serve for the term of nine months, 
of which number the quota of this Common- 
wealth has been officially declared to be 19,080 
men ; and 

W/iereas, The quotas of the several towns 
in this Commonwealth have not been assigned 
and publicly declared ; and 

Whereas, The Governor of this Commonwealth 
has granted permission to the several towns to 
furnish volunteers for their proportion of men 
or any part thereof under said call : therefore 

Voted, That the selectmen of Athol be author- 
ized., in belialf of the town, to pay a bounty of 
one hundred dollars to every inhabitant thereof 
who shall have enlisted since Aug. 22, 1862, or 



48 THE RECORD OF ATHOL [1862. 

shall hereafter enlist on or before the 2d day of 
September next, into the service of the United 
States for said term of nine months, until the num- 
ber equal to the quota of said town shall be fully 
made up." 

It was also provided that the payment of this 
bounty should be made when volunteers offering 
themselves under it should have been mustered 
into the service by the proper United States au- 
thority, and also that no bounty should be paid 
by this town to any one who had received or was 
entitled to receive a bounty from any other town 
or cit}^ 

At the same meeting it was 

" Voted, That the selectmen be authorized to 
pay to such widows and children who are enti- 
tled to such aid the amount of aid paid b}^ the 
State." Also 

'^^ Voted, To extend the time of paying said 
bounty of a hundred dollars until the time the 
draft shall be made to fill said quota." 

Aug. 14, 1862, an additional regulation was 
issued b}' the War Department, directing that in 
the several States the quotas for the counties, 
and subdivisions of counties, should be appor- 
tioned by the governors, so that allowances 
should be made for all volunteers previously fur- 
nished and mustered into service, whose stipu- 
lated term of service should not have expired. 



1862.] IN SUPPRESSING THE GREAT REBELLION. 49 

Athol had at this time one hundred and seventy- 
one men who had enlisted and been mustered 
into service for three years. The quota of this 
town under the call for three hundred thousand 
nine-months' men was sixty-one. The seven 
, men who were lacking to fill the number of 
three-years' men previously called for, the select- 
men were authorized to supply by enlistments 
for nine months. 

The enthusiasm manifested by the |)eople of 
Athol while the men were enlisting for nine 
months' service was very great. Many offered 
themselves as soldiers who could not be accept- 
ed because of some physical disability, and the 
number actually mustered into service under 
this call was but fifty-two. Each of these re- 
ceived from the town the promised bounty 
of a hundred dollars, and an additional private 
bounty, as will appear from the statements that 
follows. 

The following is a copy of a paper furnished 
to the committee who had this record in 
charsre. 

" At meetings of the citizens of Athol held in 
the Town Hall, Saturday evening, Aug. 30, and 
Tuesday evening, Sept. 2, for the purpose of se- 
curing volunteers to fill the quota of the town 
under the call of the President for nine-months' 
men, the following gentlemen subscribed the 



50 



THE RECORD OF ATHOL 



[1862, 



sums set against their names, as additional boun- 
ty to encourage enlistments. 



F. F. Amsden $100 

AV. H. Amsden 100 

A. Harding, jim 100 

Laban Morse 10 

Ozi Kendall 10 

C. M. Spooner 10 



Dexter Aldrich 
J. SmHh Cook . 
John Suiith . . . . 
H. D. Adams . . 
John Wood . . . . 
John Lewis . . . . 



10 

10 

10 

5 

5 

5 



L. K. Sprague 10 



John Wyman $10 

George B. EUinwood. ... 10 
Josej)h F. Dunbar 1 D 



Edwin Ellis 


10 


John II. Williams 


10 


John Kendall 


10 


Goodell Goddard 


10 


J. W. Bmbeek 


10 


A. D. Horr 


20 


James Stratton 


5 


J. F. Bates 


5 


Ira Bailey 


5 


Total amount. . 


. . $500 



The circumstances of the subscription were as 
follows : — 

At the first-named meeting when forty-two 
names had been secured, F. F. Amsden offered 
one hundred dollars as a bounty to the next ten 
men, and Washington H. Amsden offered one 
hundred dollars for the next ten men, which 
would make the number sixty-two. 

A. Harding, jun. offered one hundred dollars 
in addition for the first ten men, and Laban 
Morse, Ozi Kendall, Warren H. Amsden, C. M. 
Spooner, Dexter Aldrich, J. Smith Cook, John 
Smith, John Wyman, George B. EUinwood and 
Joseph F. Dunbar, offered ten dollars each for the 
last ten men. At the Tuesday-evening meeting. 



I 



18G2.] IN SUPPRESSING THE GREAT REBELLION. 51 

the subscription was continued, and on motion 
of Laban Morse, it was voted that the different 
subscriptions be paid in, and the sum which re- 
mained after paying the twenty dollars addi- 
tional bounty, should be divided among those 
who enlisted first. The names of the subscribers 
were called and they signified their willingness 
to agree to the proposition of Mr. Morse, with 
the exception of the following gentlemen who 
were absent ; viz., Mr. Harding, Mr. Kendall, Mr. 
Dunbar, and Mr. W. H. Amsden. Mr. Addison D. 
Horr was chosen as a committee to collect and 
pay over the money. The money was not to be 
paid until the volunteers were duly mustered 
into the service of the United States. The 
above I certify to be a true record of the facts 
attending the subscription. 

JAMES p. LYNDE, 

Chairman of the Meetings." 

To show how the money raised in this manner 
was expended, the following certificate of the 
committee, Mr. Addison D. Horr, is inserted in 
this place : — 

"This is to certify that I have attended to the 
duties assigned me in collecting and paying out 
the money subscribed by the foregoing names, 
and. have made the following distribution of the 
five hundred dollars. Paid 



52 



THE RECORD OF ATHOL 



[1862. 



Warren E. Smith, 
Marshall Collins, 
Henry D. Southland, 
James A. Moore, 
George AV. Drurey, jun., 
William A. Judd, 
Ozi Oliver, 
Alfred Goddard, 
Thomas Burns, 



B. A. French, 
William L. Thrower, 
Welcome J. Cleaveland, 
Adin Oakes, 
George B. Wood, 
J. O. Gould, 
Freeman G. Perry, 
George McRae, 
Peter Stanton, 



Each twenty dollars ; 



David Walker, 
Aai-on H. Holt, 
Frederic A. Stratton, 
A. V. Dimock, 
E. F. Chase, 
Henry H. Stratton, 
A. AV. Conant, 
Harrison Stockwell, 
Freeborn R. Fay, 
Arthm- N. Judd, 
Harding R. Barber, 
L. AV. Follett, 
Daniel Casavant, 
Adolphus Bangs, 



AViUiam G. Fay, 
Charles AA". Kendall, 
A. B. Folsom, 
Levi B. Fay, 
George W. Lincoln, 
CjTus AV. Conant, 
Edward P. Clapp, 
Simeon S. Drm'cy, 
Rufus Putnam, 
Harlan P. Townsend, 
Otis B. Boutwell, 
Enoch T. Lewis, 
George F. Moore, 
Charles Y. Goddard, 



John R. Pierce, 

Each four dollars and eighty-two cents. 

In addition to this money, there Avas raised at 
the first meeting forty doUars, and paid over to 
the following persons, when they put their names 
on the roll, viz. Lauriston I. King, Freeman H. 
Walker, Spencer Stockwell, and Charles H. Tyler, 
each ten dollars; making $499.78 paid out by 
the committee, and forty dollars by the donors. 
Total, $539.78. addison d. horr, 

Commiltee to collect and pa// the money." 



1862.] IN SUPPRESSING THE GREAT REBELLION. 53 

All of tlie soldiers whose names appear in the 
certificate of Mr. Horr, given above, received 
each a town bounty of one hundred dollars, when 
they were mustered into the service of the Unit- 
ed States ; and Farwell F. Fay Esq., also of Athol, 
who was chosen Captain of the company to 
which these men belonged, received at a later 
period the same bounty. 

Company E, of the Fifty-third Regiment of 
the Massachusetts volunteer militia, was made 
up of the lifty-one men named in the above cer- 
tificate from Athol, F. F. Fay Esq., also from 
Athol, one man from Phillipston, twenty-five 
men from Royalston, and eighteen men from 
New Salem. The names of all these will be 
given in connection with the account of the ser- 
vice of this company. 

Authority having been given by the Governor 
of the Commonwealth to one of the selectmen 
of Athol to call these men together, and to lead 
them to the choice of officers to be commissioned 
the men met in the town-hall of Athol, Sept. 
13, 1862. Mr. Addison D. Horr, one of the 
Athol board of selectmen, presided, when the fol- 
lowing officers of the company were chosen : — 

Farwell F. Fay, Esq. of Athol, Captain, Benja- 
min H. Brown of Royalston, first Lieutenant, 
Varnum V. Vaughan of New Salem, second Lieu- 
tenant. This company was recruited by Capt. 



54 THE RECORD OF ATHOL [1862. 

Fay ; and, on the morning of the day in which 
his company went into camp, a sword and sash 
were presented to him in the town-hall in the pre- 
sence of his company and of a large audience. 
The money to purchase these was collected by 
Mr. Charles M. Spooner; and the Hon. Charles 
Field made the address of presentation. The 
sword and sash cost forty-five dollars. 

This company went into camp at Camp Ste- 
vens, Groton Junction, Oct. 1, 1862, as Company 
E of the Fifty-third Regiment. Some sickness 
prevailed in the regiment while in Camp Stevens; 
and Spencer Stockwell of Athol died there. 
After remaining at Groton Junction two months, 
the regiment was ordered to New York, and 
left for that city Nov. 30, 1862. The men suf- 
fered much from cold and storms before they 
reached their temporary home at Franklin-street 
barracks, New-York City. While there, George 
B. Wood, from Athol, was discharged on account 
of sickness and died the day after his discharge. 
Bernard H. Doane of Company E, from Royals- 
ton, being sick, was also discharged before the 
regiment left for the seat of war ; while Charles 
P. Bliss of New Salem joined the companj^ and 
was mustered into the service in New York. 
The number of men in Company E, when the 
regiment left for the seat of war, was ninety-four ; 
but of these, two, viz. Lauriston I. King of Athol 



1862.] IN SUPPRESSING THE GREAT REBELLION. 55 

and George H. Wood of Eoyalston, were left in 
New York sick. 

Dec. 24, 1862, a Christmas dinner was for- 
warded to Company E from the store of Messrs. 
Hunt and Packard, Athol. This reached New 
York in season, and the company dined together 
on the evening of Dec. 25. As the friends of 
the company in Royalston had sent a sum of 
money to the men from that town for a dinner, 
and as all dined together upon the supplies sent 
from Athol on Christmas, b}^ invitation of the 
men from Royalston, all dined together again at 
the National Hotel, New York, Jan. 1, 1863. 
Each was an occasion of interest. 

The Fifty-third Regiment embarked on board 
the " Mississippi " for the Gulf of Mexico ; but such 
was the amount of sickness prevailing, that it 
was not deemed prudent to proceed on the voy- 
age, and all disembarked. But the health of the 
men being at length in a good degree restored, 
Jan. 16, 1863, the regiment embarked again on 
board the steamer " Continental " for New Or- 
leans. After a very stormy passage of twelve 
days, in which winds, rains, fire and sickness 
conspired to render the situation of the men un- 
comfortable and perilous, the regiment reached 
that city Jan, 31, and went into camp at Carroll- 
ton, La., six miles from New Orleans. 

Just before Company E went into camp at 



56 THE EECORD OF ATHOL [1862. 

Camp Stevens, Groton Junction, viz. on the 18th 
day of Sept., 1862, at a town-meeting duly called 
it was 

" Voted, The selectmen be authorized to pay a 
bounty of one hundred dollars each to such of 
the inhabitants of the town who have enlisted into 
the company of which Farwell F. Fay is elect- 
ed Captain, as shall be accepted and mustered 
into the service of the United States." 

During the year 1862, eighty-seven famihes of 
soldiers received aid under the several acts of 
the town of Athol recorded on the foregoing 
pages. 

The amount paid by the selectmen to these 
eighty-seven families was $5,314.49. Of this 
sum, the amount refunded by the State was 
$4,102.34, leaving as paid by the town the sum 
of $1,212.15. The highest amount paid to any 
family was four hundred and sixteen dollars, 
which was paid to the family of John 0. Mowry 
of Company B Twenty-seventh Regiment. 

The names of the soldiers whose families were 
thus aided, ayd the amount received by each fa- 
mily, during the year 1862, were as follows: — 









Whole 


IJofunded 




To aid, 


Amount paid. 


by State. 


Lewis P. Atwood, 


3Iotlier, 




S104.00 


52.00 


Jediithan W. Ames, 


Mother, 




38.86 


38.86 


J. B. Billings, 


Mother, 




13.14 


6.57 


Jolin S. Brings, 


Wife & Childr 


en, 


180.00 


83.60 


Eli Bodet, 


Wife & Childi- 


en, 


144.00 


144.00 



1862.] IN SUPPRESSING THE GREAT REBELLION. 



57 







Whole 


Refunded 




To aid, Amount paid. 


by State, 


Francis B. Brock, 


Father, 


104.00 


52.00 


Harding R. Barber, 


Wife & Child, 


21.42 


21.42 


Joseph Bracewell, 


Wife & Children, 


54,57 


54.57 


Adolplius Bangs, 


Wife & Child, 


21.42 


21.42 


Thomas Burns, 


Wife & Children, 


29.60 


29.60 


Otis B. Boutwell, 


Wife, 


10.71 


10.71 


J. B. Cumniings, 


Wife & Child, 


136.28 


90.86 


John M. Casavant, 


Wife & Children,' 


60.00 


60.00 


Marshall Collins, 


Wife & Child, 


21.42 


21.42 


Joseph H. Collins, 


Wife, 


104.00 


52.00 


George H. Clark, 


Parents, 


84.28 


84.28 


Wan-en E. Chamberlain, 


Wife & Children, 


40.57 


40.57 


Simeon S. Drurey, 


Wife & Mother, 


21.42 


21.42 


Patrick Dempsey, 


Wife & Children, 


162.00 


144.00 


H. N. DarUng, 


Wife & Child, 


43.42 


43.42 


Otis E. Davis, 


Wife & Children, 


62.40 


62.40 


John Doyle, 


Wife & ChOdren, 


56.00 


56.00 


Azer S. Da\'is, 


Wife & Child, 


40.57 


40.57 


George W. Drurey, jun.. 


Wife & Father, 


21.42 


21.42 


A. V. Dimock, 


Wife, 


10.73 


10.73 


L. W. Follett, 


Wife, 


10.73 


10.73 


WilUam G. Fay, 


Wife, 


10.73 


10.73 


Elmer G. Foster, 


Mother, 


7.42 


7.42 


A. B. Folsom, 


Wife & Children, 


29.60 


29.60 


Patrick W. Fox, 


Mother, 


104.00 


52.00 


WilUam A. Fry, 


Wife, 


52.00 


52.00 


Charles D. Fisher, 


Wife & Child, 


40.57 


40.57 


Daniel W. Foster, 


Wife & Child, 


43.43 


43.43 


Silas Fry, 


Wife & Children, 


60.00 


60.00 


Byron A. French, 


Wife & Child, 


21.42 


21.42 


Freeborn R. Fay, 


Wife & Children, 


29.60 


29.60 


Samuel A. HiU, 


Wife, 


87.40 


43.70 


Gardner Howe, 


Wife & Children, 


144.00 


144.00 


James A. Hand, 


Wife & Child, 


98.00 


98.00 


James S. Hodge, 


Wife, 


144.00 


52.00 


Aaron H..Holt, 


Wife & Children, 


29.60 


29.60 


William H. Johnson, 


Mother, 


22.28 


11.14 



58 



THE RECORD OF ATHOL 



[18C: 



INIilton N. Jillson, 

"William A. Jiitkl, 

Lauriston I. King, 

Chark'S W. Kendall, 

Fernaldo L. Lord, 

Enoch T. Lewis, 

George W. Meaehani, 

Jonathan B. ISlills, 

George Morse, 

John O. ]\Iowry, 

George F. JNIoore, 

Norris B. JNIeacham, 

Edmond Moore, 

George W. Nelson, 

Adin Oakes, 

Ozl Oliver, 

Rufus Putnam, 

James C. Parker, 

Asa Phillips, 

Foster W. Phelps, 

John R. Pierce, 

James Oliver, 2d 

William Richardson, 

Joshua Rich, 

Nerl F. Ripley, 

Harvey Robbins, 

James H. Richardson, 

George McRae, 

Charles Sears, 

Harrison Stockwell, 

Emory Sawin, 

Peter Stanton, 

Albert Simonds, 

Warren E. Smith, 

Nathaniel B. Twichell, 

W^illiam L. Thrower, 

Benjamin M. Twichell, jun., 

Horace K. Weaver, 



Whole IJefunded 

To aid, Amount paid, by State. 

Wife & Cliildren, 78.74 78.74 

Wife & Children, 29.60 29.60 

Wife & Child, 21.43 21.43 

Wife & Children, 29.60 29.60 

Wite & Children, 60.00 60.00 

Wife & Child, 21.42 21.42 

Wife & Children, 328.42 114.00 

Wife, 21.14 21.14 

Wife, 26.56 13.28 

Wife & Children, 416.00 144.00 

Mother, 10.70 10.70 

Wife, 9.50 4.75 

Mother, 104.00 52.00 

Wife & Child, 100.00 100.00 

AVife & Children, 29.60 29.60 

Wife, 10.71 10.71 

Wife & Child, 21.42 21.42 

Wife & Children, 94.50 74.00 

Wife & Children, 65.20 53.60 

Parents, 104.00 104.00 

Wife & Child, 18.00 18.00 

Wife & Child, 40.57 40.57 

Wife & Child, 102.80 68.56 

Wife, 20.29 20.29 

Child, 49.00 49.00 

Wife & Children, 60.00 60.00 

Wife & Child, 177.00 128.07 

Wife & Children, 29.60 29.60 

Wife, 21.70 21.70 

Wife & Child, 21.42 21.42 

Wife & Children, 56.00 56.00 

W^fe & Children, 29.60 29.60 

Wife & Chikb-en, 50.00 50.0(» 

Wife & Children, 29.60 29.60 

Wife & Children, 41.57 41.57 

Child, 10.70 10.70 

Wife, 20.28 20.28 

Wife & Child, 104.00 104.00 



1863.] IN SUPPRESSING THE GREAT REBELLION. 59 



Whole Refunded 
To aid, Ainouut paid, by Slate. 



Walter Wilbcr, 


Wife & Children, 


56.00 


56.00 


Nelson G. Wood, 


Mother, 


21.70 


21.70 


E. W. Whitney, 


Wife & Children, 


60.00 


60.00 


Freeman H. Walker, 


Wife, 


10.70 


10.70 


William Washburn, 


Wife & Children, 


58.40 


58.40 


Asa Wyman, 


Wife & Children, 


' 58.00 


58.00 


Morgan Young, 


Wife, 


104.00 


52.00 



Amos L. Cheney, John Kendall and A. D. Horr 
were the Selectmen of the Town of Athol for 
the year commencing March 1862. 

The year closed with the Rebellion unsubdued, 
while nearly all the loyal Regiments in the field 
of conflict greatly needed recruits. 



18 6 3. 

The Commonwealth having provided that any 
City or Town might raise money to continue to 
pay the State Aid to the families of deceased or 
disabled soldiers for the space of one year un- 
less pensions should be previously granted to 
them, at a Town meeting legally called, and 
held May 9, 1863, it was 

" Voted^ To continue to pay the State Aid to 
the families of deceased and disabled soldiers, 
according to the provisions of a recent act of 
the Legislature." 

A Conscription Act having been passed by 



60 THE RECORD OF ATHOL [18G3. 

Congress for the purpose of recruiting the forces 
of the United States, a new enrolhnent of the 
men liable to military service, was ordered under 
the authority of the General Government. The 
enrolling; Officer for Atliol was Mr. Addison D. 
Horr, of the Board of Selectmen. 

The enrollment was ordered for July 1, 1863 ; 
and the enrolled men were to be divided into 
two Classes. 

The first class comprised all between the ages 
of twenty and thirty-five years and the unmar- 
ried men and widowers between thirty-five and 
forty-five. 

The second class comprised the married men, 
who were more than thirty-five, but under forty- 
five years of age. Athol was found to have 
three hundred and six men of the first class, 
without including any who were at that date in 
the service of the United States. 

The first Draft was ordered to be made from 
the first class and was made to equal one sev- 
enth of the whole, with the addition of fifty 
per cent, of the same for exemptions. The Quo- 
ta for Athol was therefore sixty-six; and these 
were drawn at Greenfield, the Head Quarters of 
the 9th District, July 14th, 1863. 

The names drawn and the results of the exam- 
ination of the conscripts are here given as fol- 
lows. The men were drawn in the order ob- 
served in making this record of them. 



1863.] IN SUPPRESSING THE GREAT REBELLION. 



61 



Jolin E. Woods, 
Samuel Searls, 
Nathan C. Knowlton, 
Albert Sandei'son, 
William N. Gleason, 
Emory Gage, 
WiUiam H. Foster, 
C. C. Horr, 
Dwight Smith, 
Elijali L. Bryant, 
George W. Rickey, 
Leander W. Phelps, 
Ted 1) than W. Ames, 
J. B. BilUngs, 
Hart L. Keyes, 
George B. Ellinwood, 
J. Alonzo Whitney, 

F. D. Billiard, 
Adoniram J. Fay, 
Guilford W. Lamb, jun 
James F. Whitcomb, 
Daniel D. Bruce, 
Albert H. Lawrence, 
W. H. Frost, 

John F. Merrill, 
Sereno E. Fay, 
James S. Jobbins, 

G. Sumner Goddard, 
James Coolidge, 
William M. Leonard, 
Frederic N. Brockett, 
Branch F. Ayers, 
Maxon R. Wetherby, 
On-in F. Hunt, 
John H. BuUard, 
Simeon B. Newton, 
Francis L. Pond, 
Ensign A. Marsh, 
Luclan Lord, 

6 



Exempted. 

do. 

do. 
Accepted. Furnished Substitute. 
Exemjited. 

do. 

do. 
Accepted. Furnished Substitute. 
Exempted. 

Accejrted. Furnished Substitute. 
ExemjJted. 

do. 

do. 

do. 

do. 
Accepted. Furnished Substitute. 

do. do. do. 

Exempted. 

Accepted. Furnished Substitute. 
., Accepted. Reported for Service. 
Accepted. Furnished Substitute. 
Accepted. Reported for Service. 
Accepted. Furnished Substitute. 
Exempted. 

do. 

do. 

do. 
Accepted. Furnished Substitute. 
Exempted. 

do. 

do. 

do. 
Accepted. Reported for Service. 
Exempted. 

do. 
Accepted. Paid Commutation. 
Exempted. 

do. 

do. 



62 



THE RECORD OF ATHOL 



[1863. 



Sullivan Moore, 
Lyman A. Chamberlain, 
Warren A. Beaman, 
Horatio Mann, 
Hlrani L. Reynolds, 
Hubbard V. Smith, 
David D. Gay, 
George Stockwell, 
Gardner Howe, 
George H. Bai-ry, 
George W. Andrews, 
Henry W. Stratton, 
Amos A. Warrick, 
Thomas H. Goodspeed, 
John E. INIoore, 
Lucius R. Spraguc, 
Edwin F. Williams, 
Frederic T. George, 
Henry A. Stearns, 
Henry Lee, 
Henry Kendall, 
Alonzo E. Pratt, 
George P. Sloan, 
Benj. M. Twichell, jun. 
George H. Richardson, 
Ephralm Rice, 
George E. Pheljis, 



Exempted. 

do. 
Accepted. Reported for Service. 
Accepted. Furnished Substitute. 
Exempted. 

do. 

do. 

do. 

do. 

do. 

do. 

do. 
Accepted. Furnished Substitute. 
Exempted. 

Accei^ted. Furnished Substitute. 
Exempted. 

do. 
Accepted. Furnished Substitute. 
Exempted. 

do. 
Accepted. Paid Commutation. 
Exempted. 

Accepted. Furnished Substitute. 
, Exempted. 

do. 

do. 

do. 



From the al)Ove it appears that of the sixty- 
six men drafted from Athol, only twenty, or a 
little less than one third, were held to serve. 
This proportion may seem very small, but it will 
be fomid to be considerably larger than the aver- 
age throughout the Commonwealth. Tlie whole 
number of men drafted at this time in Massachu- 
setts was 32,079 ; of these there were held to 



1863.] IN SUPPRESSING THE GREAT REBELLION. 63 

serve 6,690 or considerably less than one fourth. 
Of those held to serve only 743 joined the service, 
while 2,325 procured substitutes and 3,623 paid 
commutation which amounted to $1,085,800. 

The number of men who failed to report was 
3,044 and the number of men exempted was 
22,343. 

Of the twenty men accepted from Athol, as 
will be seen above, fourteen procured substitutes, 
two paid the commutation of three hundred dol- 
lars each, and four reported for service. Of the 
four last mentioned, one, Warren A. Beaman was 
a prisoner at Andersonville Georgia, and died at 
Annapolis on his way home. 

It should be stated here, that the lot that fell 
upon them was a very expensive thing to the 
youDg gentlemen from Athol who procured sub- 
stitutes or paid commutation. The commutation 
was three hundred dollars each, while substitutes 
could not be procured at that time, carried to 
Greenfield and their expenses paid till they were 
actually received into the service of the Govern- 
ment without an additional outlay of forty dol- 
lars, on an average. 

The fourteen Substitutes cost therefore nearly 
or quite $4,760. The commutation paid was 
$600, making the amount paid by the sixteen 
young gentlemen, who in this manner did their 
part to serve the country, $5,360. 



64 THE RECORD OF ATHOL [18G3. 

In some cases, it took all, and more than all 
these men possessed to meet the expenses of 
this drafl ; a fact which their fellow- townsmen 
should hold in perpetual remembrance. 

More men being wanted for the service of the 
Government, another call for troops was issued 
by the President, Oct. 17, 1863. This call was 
for three hundred thousand men, and the quota 
for Athol under it was thirty-three. 

Premiums of fifteen dollars each for raw re- 
cruits and of twenty-five dollars each for vet- 
erans, were offered by the Government, to pro- 
mote enlistments; but these were in no case to 
go to the recruits, but to the Agents w^ho might 
secure them for the service. In Athol, this mat- 
ter was properly arranged and conducted by the 
Selectmen who appointed Byron A. French and 
Patrick W. Fox their assistants. Under this ar- 
rangement twenty men were secured for the 
service of the Government from Athol, one half 
of wdiom w^ere veterans, or men who re-entered 
the service. 

Late in the summer of 1863, the surviving 
members of Company E, Fifty-third Regiment, 
under Capt. F. F. Fay returned from the South- 
West to Athol and its vicinity, their term of en- 
listment having expired. A particular account 
of their reception &c. will be found under the 
History of the services of that Regiment, in this 
Record. 



1863.] IN SUPPRESSING THE GREAT REBELLION. 65 

During the year 1863, Seventy-Five families of 
soldiers from Athol received aid under the sev- 
eral acts of the Town and Commonwealth for 
the encouragement of enlistments. The amount 
paid by the Selectmen to these seventy-five 
families during the year was $7,032.03. Of this 
sum there was refunded by the State the sum of 
$6,664.23, leaving as a charge ujDon the Treasury 
of the Town $367.80. 

The highest sum paid to any family was $197.- 
70: which was paid to the family of John 0. 
Mowry. 

The names of the soldiers whose families re- 
ceived State and Town Aid and the amounts 
paid to each during the year 1863, were as fol- 
lows : — 





To aid 




Lewis P. Atwood, 


Wife, 


$104.00 


Harding E,. Barber, 


Wife & Child, 


70.00 


J. B. Billings, 


iMother, 


42.00 


Warren A. Beaman, 


Wife, 


19.00 


Eli Bodet, 


Wife & Children, 


124.80 


Francis B. Brock, 


Father, 


56.00 


Joseph Bracewell, 


Wife & Children, 


144.00 


Adolphus Bangs, 


Wife & Cliild, 


70.00 


Thomas Burns, 


Wife & Children, 


96.80 


Otis B. Boutwell, 


Wife, 


35.00 


Marshall Collins, 


Wife & Child, 


89.00 


Joseph H. Collins, 


Wife, 


42 43 


George H. Clark, 


Father & Mother, 


104.00 


Warren E. Chamberlain, 


Wife & Child, 


104.00 


Simeon S. Drurey, 


Wife & Mother, 


70.00 



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[1863. 



Welcome J. Cleavelaud, 
Patrick Dempsey, 
Henry N. Darling, 
Otis E. Davis, 
John Doyle, 
Azor S. Davis, 
George W. Drurey, 
Anthony V. Dimock, 
William Ct. Fay, 
Ley ton W. Follett, 
A. B. FoLsom, 
Patrick W. Fox, 
William A. Fry, 
Charles D. Fisher, 
Daniel W. Foster, 
Byron A. French, 
Gardner Howe, 
Freeborn R. Fay, 
James A. Hand, 
James S. Hodge, 
Aaron H. Holt, 
William H. Johnson, 
]MiUon N. Jillsou, 
William A. Judd, 
Lauriston I. King, 
Charles W. Kendall, 
Fernaldo L. Lord, 
Enoch T. Lewis, 
John 0. Mowry, 
George F. Moore, 
Edmond Moore, 
Adin Oakes, 
Ozi Oliver, 
Rufus Putnam, 



To aid 

Mother, 52.00 

Wife & Children, 144.00 

Wife & Children, 142.00 

Wife & Children, 144.00 

"Wife & Children, 144.00 

Wife & Child, 104.00 

Wife & Father, 70.00 

Wife & Child, 66.43 

Wife, 35.00 

Wife, 35.00 

Wife & Children, 96.80 

Mother, 54.85 

Wife, 52.00 

Wife & Child, 104.00 

Wife & Child, 96.57 

Wife & Children, 81.82 

Wife & Children, 142.40 

Wife & Children, 90.80 

Wife & Children, 144.00 

Wife, 87.85 

Wife & Children, 96.80 

Mother, 42.00 

Wife & Children, 144.00 

Wife & Children, 96.80 

Wife & Child, 70.00 

Wife & Children, 96.80 

Wife & Children, 141.00 

Wife & Child, 70.00 

Wife & Children, 197.70 

Mother, 35.00 

Mother, 104.00 

Wife & Children, 144.00 

Wife, 35.00 

Wife & Child, 70.00 



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67 



To aid 

Albert D. Pond, Father & Mother, 104.00 

Asa PhiUips, Wife & Children, 116.00 

Foster W. Phelps, • Father & Mother, 104.00 

John R. Pierce, Wife & Child, 70.00 

James Oliver, 2d, Wife & Child, 104.00 

Joshua Rich, Wife, 52.00 

Neri F. Ripley, • Child, 42.00 

Harvey Robbins, " Wife & Children, 144.00 

James H. Richardson, Wife & Child, 156.00 

George McRae, Wife & Children, 96.80 

Charles Sears, Wife, 52.00 

Harrison Stockwell, Wife & Child, 70.00 

Emory Sawiii, Wife & Children, 144.00 

Peter Stanton, Wife & Children, 96.80 

Warren E. Smith, Wife & Children, 96.80 

N. B. Twichell, . Wife & Children, 144.00 

WUHam L. Thrower, Child, 35.00 

Albert Simonds, Wife & Children, 144.00 

Horace K. Weaver, Wife & Child, 104.00 

Nelson G. Wood, Mother, 52.00 

E. W. Whitney, Wife & Children, 144.00 

Freeman H. Walker, Wife & Parents, 105.00 

William Washburn, Wife & Children, 1-M.OO 

Asa Wyman, Wife & Children, 114.28 

Maxon R. Wetherby, Wife & Children, 66.80 

Morgan Young, Wife, 71.14 

Total amount as above $6,983.27 

Supplementary account allowed, $56.96 

Subtract for error, 8.20 

Amount corrected, $7,032.03 

Of this the State refunded, 6,664.23 

Paid hj the Town, $367.80 



68 THE EECORD OF ATIIOL [1864. 

Of the last amount the family of 

Lewis P. Atwood received $52.00 

Patrick W. Fox, ^ G.42 

James S. Hodge, 35.71 

John 0. Mowry, 130.10 

Edmund 3Ioore, 52.00 

James II. Kiehardson, 52.00 

Morgan Young, 35.57 

Calvin Kelton Esqr., Mr. A. D. Horr and Mr. 

Amos L. Cheney were the Selectmen of Athol 
for the year commencing March 1863. 



1864. 

Feb. 1, 1864, the President of the United 
States issued a call for 500,000 troops ; it being 
understood that this number miiyht include 

1. All the Drafted men that reported for ser- 
vice, paid the commutation or furnished Substi- 
tutes, during the summer of 1863; 

2. All who had volunteered and been mus- 
tered into the service of the United States after 
July 1, 1863; and 

3. All who having been in the service of the 
United States with less than one year to serve 
had re-enlisted or would re-enlist for an addi- 
tional term of three years or for the war. 

Of the first class mentioned above the Town 



1864.] IN SUPPRESSING THE GREAT REBELLION. 69 

of Athol had already furnished twenty men, and 
of the second class the same number. 

Nineteen men from Athol re-enlisted and were 
credited to this town, viz. 

Asa L. Kneelaiid. John Clark. 

Ebenezer Kneeland. Theodore Washburn. 

Charles Gray. Charles C. Phelps. 

D. W. Larned. Thomas Johnson. 

A. D. Pond. William Beard. 

N. B. Twichell. T. A. Woodward. 

George D. Townsend, Willard Twichell. 

Delev^an Richardson. Foster W. Phelps. 

D. E. BiUings. Fernaldo L. Lord. 
Lewis P. Atwood. 

James Connell of Athol re-enlisted but Avas 
held contrary to his written protest by the Town 
of Wareham. Prescott M. Metcalf and Levi 
Bosworth re-enlisted for Athol but were held by 
Royalston. Charles H. Barton re-enlisted and 
was credited to Philadelphia, while John Clark 
and Theodore Washburn who went originally 
from Phillipston were credited to Athol. 

The nineteen re-enlistments above mentioned 
with the forty men previously obtained filled 
the quota from Athol, under the call of Feb. 1, 
1864, and left a small surplus, but precisely how 
large this was, it is difficult to determine, since 
the names of the men who re-enlisted were not 
.all returned to' the Office of the Provost Mar- 
shal at Boston till after the 15th of Feb. 



70 THE RECORD OF ATHOL [18C4. 

March 15, 1864, the President issued another 
call for 200,000 troops, and the quota of Athol 
under this call was thirty-two. The surplus of 
re-enlisted men and twenty-seven other men ob- 
tained through Brokers made up this number. 

The Legislatiu'e of Massachusetts having pro- 
vided by the Act of March 16, 1864, that cities 
and Towns might raise money by taxation or 
otherwise for the purpose of procuring volun- 
teers and pay to each one enlisted into the ser- 
vice as a part of the quota of said Cities or 
Towns a sum not exceeding one hundred and 
twenty five dollars, a Town Meeting was called 
for April 16, 1864, at which it was voted, 

" That the Town raise by taxation the sum of 
Three Thousand Dollars for the purpose of pay- 
ing under the direction of the Selectmen one 
hundred and twenty-five Dollars in aid of and 
for the purpose of procuring each recruit who 
may be mustered into the United States service 
from Athol, under the last call of the President 
of the United States for 200,000 men." 

As the sum raised April 16, 1864, was only 
sufficient to pay the proposed bounties to twenty- 
four men, and as twenty-seven were required to 
fill the quota, another Town Meeting was called 
for June 4, 1864, at which by a vote similar to 
the above, the additional sum of three hundred 
and seventy-five Dollars was raised, for the pur- 



1864.] IN SUPPRESSING THE GREAT REBELLION. 71 

pose of procuring three additional recruits for 
Athol. 

At the same meeting it was voted 

" To raise a sum of money sufficient to piay 
each man who may volunteer or each enrolled 
who may furnish a Substitute for said enrolled 
man, and said volunteer or substitute to be duly 
mustered into the service of the United States 
and credited to the Town of Athol, the sum of 
one hundred and twenty-five dollars each ; said 
sum of money to be paid to any one who may 
volunteer or furnish a Substitute at any time 
within three months from the date hereof, pro- 
vided they are duly mustered and credited to 
the Town of Athol." 

Under this last mentioned vote of the Town, 
no bounties were paid. 

The Twenty-seven men above referred to who 
completed the quota of Athol under the call of 
March 15, 1864, received each as a bounty from 
the Town the sum of one hundred and twenty- 
five dollars, and from the Citizens of the Town 
an average additional bount}^ each, of Fifty-one 
dollars and Fifty cents. 

In July, 1864, the Secretary of War issued an 
order for the organization of Eegiments to serve 
for 100 days. The men serving in these were to 
receive no bounty, but were not liable to draft 
during their term of service. Athol furnished 
four men under this call. 



72 THE RECORD OF ATHOL [18G4 

Another call for 500,000 additional troops was 
made by the President of the United States 
July 19, 1864 ; and at a Town Meeting Aug. 6, 
1864, it was 

Voted to "raise a sum of monej^ to be paid 
out under the direction of the Selectmen, in aid 
of and for the purpose of procuring recruits ne- 
cessary to fill the whole quota of the Town, un- 
der the call of the President of the United States 
dated July 18, 1864, after deducting the surplus 
to which the Town was entitled, not exceeding 
125 dollars for each recruit." It was also 

" Voted that the Selectmen be authorized to 
deposit such sum of money authorized to be 
raised by the above vote, with the State Treas- 
urer, as they may deem best and necessary, for 
the purpose of obtaining recruits from States in 
rebellion, in accordance with an order from the 
Governor of the Commonwealth." Under the last 
vote above the Selectmen deposited in the State 
Treasury the sum of 1000 Dollars a part of 
which at a later period was used for the pur- 
pose indicated and obtained three recruits who 
were credited to Athol ; and the sum remaining 
was withdrawn. 

Under the call of July 19, 1864, six men en- 
listed from Athol for the term of one year, and 
twenty-five other men were obtained through 
Brokers. Of the last mentioned, four enlisted 



18G4.] IN SUPPRESSING THE GREAT REBELLION, 73 

for one year, one for two years, and the other 
twenty for three years. 

Each of these thirtj^-one men received a Town 
Bounty of 125 Dollars, while the additional 
amount paid for each by the citizens of Athol 
averaged $236.13. 

Upon a careful review^ of the accounts kept in 
the Office of the Provost Marshal at Boston 
Sept. 19, 1861, it appeared that Athol had, under 
all the previous calls a surplus of seven men. 
At a later period one was added to this number 
making the surplus at the time the next call was 
issued, eight men. 

Dec. 19, 1864, the President called for 300,000 
additional troops, and under this call the quota 
for Athol was thirty-six. 

At a Town Meeting Dec. 31, 1864, it was vot- 
ed, as under previous calls, to raise and ajDpro- 
priate a sum sufficient to pay each recruit requi- 
site to fill this quota, 125 Dollars. 

The quota was filled as follows. Credited to 
the Town as stated above, eight. Obtained by 
enlistments here and through Brokers, twenty- 
four. Representative recruits, four; making a 
total of thirty-six men. Of the 24 men named 
above, five enlisted for one year each, and the 
remaining nineteen for three years each. The 
Town paid for each of these a bounty of 125 
dollars, while the additional bount}' paid by the 



74 THE RECORD OF ATHOL [1864. 

citizens of Athol was for each, on an average, as 
follows. For the three years men $139.47. For 
the one year men $52.00. 

The Representative recruits, for each of whom 
the requisite sum had been deposited in the 
State Treasury were as follows — 

Private John Micr For C. C. Bassett Esqr. 

" Dennis Caldwell " Asa Hill. 

" Daniel Bruce " Calvin Kelton Esqr. 

" Moses Wilkinson " Lewis Thorpe. 

And to these at a later period were added 
Private William Freeman for Walter Thorpe, 
and Henry Williams for David F. Wood. It is 
stated in the Adjutant General's Report, that 
the surplus of Athol under all the calls previous 
to Dec. 1, 1864, was ten men. We have the 
same authority for stating that after the quota 
of Athol under the last call viz. that of Dec. 19, 
1864, was filled, the Town had a surj^lus of 
twenty-eight men. 

It should be noted in this place that in the 
distribution among the towns and cities of the 
Commonwealth of the men in the Naval Service 
of the United States, who had been credited to 
the State of Massachusetts, and not to any par- 
ticular town or city therein, Athol was credited 
with fifteen men, in addition to the four we al- 
ready had in the Navy. Of course, the names 



1864.] IN SUPPEESSING THE GREAT REBELLION. 75 

of these fifteen men do not appear upon this 
Record. 

As the history of recruiting for the United 
States service in Athol properly closes with the 
end of the year 1864, the following summary of 
the results may here be presented. 

In this record there will be found the names 
of Three Hundred and Thirty-Five men, whom 
Athol furnished to aid in suppressing the Great 
Rebellion. Of these, nineteen re-enlisted, and 
these of course were counted twice in filling; our 
quotas. Seventeen others of the 335 re-entered 
the service after recovering from the wounds or 
sickness on account of which they had been dis- 
charged. This number includes four Musicians 
Avho were discharged by an Order discontinuing 
Regimental Bands of Music. 

To these we add the fifteen credited to Athol 
through the enlistments of Massachusetts men 
in the Navy. The wdiole number furnished by 
the Town to fill quotas was therefore 386. And 
to this amount we are to add one man for whom 
the Provost Marshal gives us credit but of whom 
we can give no account and we have the sum 
total 387. 

During the year 1864 Seventy-Four fimilies 
of soldiers received aid under the several acts of 
the Town and State to encourao-e enlistments. 

In the case of the ftxmily of William Wash- 



76 



THE RECORD OF ATHOL 



[18G4. 



burn, aid was received after his death under the 
name of his son Oscar Washburn. 

The names of the soldiers whose families were 
thus aided, and the amounts received by each, 
were as follows — 



Names. 


To aid 


Amount. 


Lewis P. Atwood, 


Wife, 


$52.00 


J. W. Ames, 


Mother, 


39.71 


D. E. Billings, 


Mother, 


52.00 


W. A. Beaniau, 


Wife & Child, 


95.00 


Eli Bodet, 


Widow & Children, 


24.00 


Francis B. Brock, 


Father, 


52.00 


Joseph Bracewell, 


Wife & Children, 


132.00 


John S. Brown, 


Wife & Children, 


140.00 


Daniel D. Bruce, 


Father, 


52.00 


Joseph H. Collins, 


Wife, 


8.00 


Horatio W. McClellan, 


jMother, 


52.00 


Marshall Collins, 


Child, 


8.00 


George H. Clark, 


Father & Mother, 


104.00 


W. E. Chamberlain, 


Wife & Child, 


16.00 


John Clark, 


Wife, 


39.14 


L. A. Chamberlain, 


Mother, 


31.00 


James Cotton, 


Wife & Child, 


35.98 


Patrick Denipsey, 


Wife & Children, 


68.40 


Henry N. Darling, 


Wife & Children, 


106.80 


Otis E. Davis, 


Wife & Children, 


144.00 


John Doyle, 


Wife & Children, 


144.00 


Azor S. Davis, 


Wife & Child, 


84.00 


Terrence Donelly, 


Mother, 


34.57 


William Donelly, 


Wife, 


22.57 


Patrick W. Fox, 


IMother, 


52.00 


WiUiam A. Fry, 


Wife, 


47.14 


Charles D. Fisher, 


Wife & Child, 


92.50 



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77 



Daniel W. Foster, 


Wife & Child, 


16.00 


Gardner Howe, 


Wife & Children, 


28.80 


James A. Hand, 


Wife & Children, 


122.00 


James S. Hodge, 


Widow, 


35.85 


Edwin C. Hastings, 


Wife & Child, 


104.00 


John W. Howe, 


Wife, 


52.00 


Joseph W. Howard, 


Mother, 


39.42 


Michael J. Hudson, 


Wife & Child, 


35.14 


William H. Johnson, 


Mother, 


10.00 


Milton N. Jillson, 


Wife & Children, 


144.00 


Ebenezer Kueeland, 


Wife, 


48.00 


Lauriston I. King, 


Widow & Child, 


87.71 


Fernaldo L. Lord, 


Wife & Children, 


144.00 


Irving N. Leonard, 


Father, 


17.57 


George W. Meaeham, 


Wife & ChUdren, 


144.00 


Edmund Moore, 


Mother, 


77.43 


James Oliver, 2d, 


Wife & Child, 


77.43 


Adin Oakes, 


Widow & Children, 


36.00 


Albert D. Pond, 


Father, 


52.00 


Foster W. Phelps, 


Parents, 


104.00 


Charles C. Phelps, 


Wife, 


26.00 


Peter Pelkey, 


Wife & Children, 


144.00 


Asa Phillips, 


Widow & Children, 


28.00 


John Pluukett, 


Wife & Child, 


71.71 


Chauneey Parkman, jun., 


Child, 


52.00 


Charles Kent, jun., 


Mother, 


34.42 


Joshua Rich, 


Widow, 


52.00 


N. F. Ripley, 


Child, 


10.00 


Harvey Robbins, 


Widow & Children, 


48.00 


James H. Richardson, 


Wife & Child, 


114.00 


W. J. Rogers, 


Wife, 


21.85 


Charles Sears, 


Wife, 


38.43 


Emory Sawin, 


Wife & Children, 


144.00 


Albert Simonds, 


Wife & Children, 


106.80 


George W. Stevens, 


Mother, 


24.00 



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[1865. 



Peter Stanton, 


Wife & Children, 


18.00 


N. B. Twiehell, 


Wife & Children, 


144.00 


Hoi-ace 0. Thayer, 


Mother, 


52.00 


George D. Townsend, 


Wife, 


13.00 


Horace K. Weaver, 


Wife & Child, 


94.57 


Nelson G. Wood, 


Mother, 


52.00 


E. W. Whitney, 


Wife & Children, 


90.00 


William Washburn, 


Wife & Children, 


98.00 


Oscar Washburn, 


Mother, 


16.71 


Asa Wyman, 


Children, 


104.00 


Maxon R. Wetherby, 


Wife & Children, 


130.92 


Theodore Washburn, 


3Iother, 


39.14 


Heury N. Smith, 


Wife & Children, 


144.00 



Total Amount paid $5011.58 

Leaving paid by the Town after the State 

had refunded 4941.86 

the sum of $69.72 

Viz, on account of Edmund Moore $38.72 

And of James H. Richardson 31.00 

The Selectmen of Athol for the year com- 
mencing March 1864 were Calvin Kelton Esqr, 
Josiali Haven and Gardner Lord Jr. 



18 6 5. 



Seven of the soldiers obtained by Athol to fill 
the call for troops made Dec. 19, 1864, were not 
mustered into the service till early in the Year 
1865. 



18G5.] IN SUPPRESSING THE GREAT REBELLION, 79 

The year opened with encouraging prospects 
of the speedy and total suppression of the Re- 
bellion. No new troops were called for, while 
Maj. Gen. Sherman, with an invincible army, 
was laying waste Georgia and the Carolinas, and 
Maj. Gen. Grant's movements were filling Rich- 
mond, the rebel Capital, with consternation. 
April 2, the rebel Government fled from Rich- 
mond, and the next morning the city was occu- 
pied by Gen. Grant's Army. The remnant of 
Gen. Lee's army was surrendered to Gen. Grant 
after a few days of desperate fighting, and in an 
incredibly short space of time the Rebellion was 
suppressed and the Confederacy had vanished. 

Early in the year, our soldiers began to return 
to their homes, and long before its close but few 
remained in the field. The sacrifices of the 
Town of Athol to maintain this mighty conflict 
with treason have been great. The men who 
have died in the service or from diseases con- 
tracted in it, from the Town of Athol number at 
least fifty and perhaps fifty-one. Of this number 
there were killed or died of wounds received in 
action fourteen. There died of various diseases 
thirty-four. Killed by cars, one. Thrown from 
a horse one. Total Fifty. 

Four died while prisoners at Andersonville 
Ga. viz. S. E. Oliver, Samuel Rich, John W. Howe, 
Geo. S. Dresser, and probably E. R. West. 



80 THE RECORD OF ATHOL [18G5. 

One died just after leaving Andersonville, viz. 
Warren A. Beaman. 

Twenty-Eight men from Athol were in rebel 
prisons for a longer or shorter period. Of those 
who were severely wounded and have wholly or 
in part recovered there Avere thirty-one, and 
some of these were wounded on two or more oc- 
casions or in two or more places, — while the 
number of those slightly wounded was about 
the same. 

Martin L. Maynard of the 36th Regiment lost 
a leg in the service, and he is the only soldier 
from Athol known to have been permanently 
disabled by the loss of a limb. 

A particular account of these sufferings and 
losses will be found under the head, " Personal 
History of the Athol Soldiers and seamen in the 
War," contained in the latter part of this Eecord. 

During the year 1865 fifty-seven families of 
soldiers furnished by Athol received aid under 
the several acts of the Town and State to encour- 
age enlistments. The names of these soldiers 
and the amounts received by their respective 
families w^ere as follows. 

To aid 



Lewis P. At wood, 


Wife, 


$10.28 


Joiluthan W. Ames, 


Mother, 


20.00 


David E. Billings, 


Mother, 


27.8(3 


Warren A. Beaman, 


Wife & Child, 


72.0(1 



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81 



Francis B. Brock, 


Father, 


22.00 


Daniel D. Bruce, 


Father, 


21.28 


Charles H. Barney, 


Wife & Children, 


50.00 


H. W. McClellen, 


Mother, 


24.57 


Greorge H. Clark, 


Parents, 


99.43 


John Clark, 


Wife, 


24.43 


James Cotton, 


Wife & Child, 


48.00 


Otis E. Davis, 


Wife & Children, 


66.40 


John Doyle, 


Wife & Children, 


68.80 


Terrence Donelly, 


Mother, 


34.00 


William Donelly, 


Wife, 


24.57 


James Eagan, 


- Mother, 


45.43 


Patrick W. Fox, 


IMother, 


33.71 


Joseph Falvey, 


Mother, 


47.14 


M. E. Guilfoyle, 


Wife & Children, 


70.40 


Irving C. Grates, 


Mother, 


45.14 


Edwin C. Hastings, 


Wife & Child, 


104.00 


John W. Howe, 


Wife, 


26.57 


Joseph W. Howard, 


Mother, 


52.00 


Michael J. Hudson, 


Wife & Child, 


48.00 


Milton N. Jillson, 


Wife & Children, 


48.00 


Edwin Holmes, 


Mother, 


26.00 


Ebenezer Kneeland, 


Wife & Child, 


40.51 


Lauriston I. King, 


Wife & Child, 


16.29 


F. L. Lord, 


Wife & Children, 


66.00 


Irving L. Leonard, 


Father, 


24.00 


George W. Meacham, 


Wife & Children, 


144.00 


Frederic P. Morse, 


Wife & Child, 


11.14 


Albert D. Pond, 


Father, 


25.43 


Foster W. Phelps, 


Parents, 


52.00 


Peter Pelkey, 


Wife & Children, 


86.80 


John Pluukett, 


Wife & Child, 


104.00 


Chancey Parkman, Jr., 


Child, 


22.00 


Charles Kent, Jr., 


Mother, 


34.00 


Charles C. Phelps, 


Wife, 


25.57 



82 



HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. 



Francis Powers, 
Joshua Ricb, 
Patrick Reardon, 
James H. Eiehardson, 
William J. Rogers, 
Emory Sawin, 
Henry N. Smith, 
William Smith, 
John E. Sbattuck, 
Nathaniel B. Twichell, 
Horace 0. Thayer, 
George D. Townsend, 
Thomas Thompson, 
Nelson Ct. Wood, 
Oscar Washburn, 
Asa Wyman, 
Maxon R. Wetherby, 
Theodore Washburn, 



Father, 33.00 

Wife, 18.00 

Wife & Child, 61.71 

Child, 2.57 

Wife & Child, 38.48 

Wife & Children, 88.40 

Wife & Children, 90.40 

Mother, 25.86 

Mother, 45.14 

Wife & Children, 36.00 

Mother, 4.71 

Wife, 23.71 

Wife & Children, 125.60 

Mother, 18.42 

Mother, 8.00 

Children, 35.14 

Wife & Child, 48.00 

Mother, 23.72 



Whole Amount $2538.62 

All of which it is supposed will l)e refund- 
ed by the State. 



HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. 

Company B 27th Regiment IMass. Volunteers. x\dditional par- 
ticulars. 

Names of the original members and of the recruits of 18G2. 

Captain, Adin W. Caswell. 

1st Lieut. P. W. McMannus. Tran.'<ferred to Comp. I and 
afterwards Adjutant and a Prisoner. 

1st Lieut. W. A. Goodale. Transferred from Comp. I. 

1st Lieut. F. C. Wright. Promoted from Comp. G. 

2d Lieut. Lovell H. Horton. Resigned 1802. 

2d Lieut. La B. Sampson. Capt. 2d Artillery 1863. 



HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. 83 

Non- Commissioned Officers in 18G1. 

Sergeant Henry S. Benjamin. Discharged Sept. 1862. 
Henry E. Ballon. Discharged Feb. 1863. 

" Charles Grey. Served 3 years. Re-enlisted and was 
a prisoner. 

" Otis Oliver, Wounded and transferred to Invalid 
Corps, Aug. 1863. 

" Daniel W. Larned. See Personal History. 
Corporal W. H. Sprague. Died May 1862. 

" Mark Rankin. Sergeant Sept. 1862. 

" Henry H. Bush. Sergeant Aug. 1863. 

" John 0. Mowry. See Personal History. 

" Van Buren French. See Personal History. 

" John R. Morse. See Personal History. 

" William H. Pierce. Wounded and Prisoner. 

" Greorge V. Oakes. Sergeant 1863. 

llusicians. 
Addison Leach. 

James S. Hodge. Killed by Cars. Sept. 1863. 
Wagoner, James P. Little. 
Horace B. Allen. Discharged Sept. 1862. 
Andrew J. Ames. Transf. to Comp. K. Died April 1862. 
Daniel Bosworth. Discharged Oct. 1862. 
Levi Bosworth. Corp. 1862. Serg. 1863. Prisoner. 
Thomas G. Barry, Discharged Sept. 1862. Died Oct. 1862. 
John Bolles, Corp. 1863. Prisoner 1864. 
Daniel Blair, Prisoner 1864. 
Hiram Blair, Prisoner 1864. 
George Britton, Wounded March 1862. 
W. B. Bliss, Wounded 1864.' 
John T. Bliss, Prisoner 1864. 
John S. Briggs. See Personal History. 
Joseph Bracewell. Prisoner. See Personal History. 
William A. Brizzee, Recrait of 1862. Wounded 1864. 



84 HISTOEICAL NAREATIVE. 

John W. Brizzee, Uransferred to Comp. C, 1864. 

Hany R. Blackner. See Personal History. 

Georo;e W. Beard. Recruit of 1862. 

Joseph Briggs, Recruit of 1862. Wounded severely 1864, 

Wm. E. Caswell, Corp. 1863. 

Linus Crawford. See Personal History. 

Lyman A. Chamberlain. See Personal History. 

Jason Gr. Curamings, Discharged Oct. 1862. 

John Clark. See Personal History. 

Miles S. Cushing, Recruit 1862. Died July 1862. 

W. N. Dexter, Prisoner 1864. 

Joseph Drake, Killed at Newbern March 1862. 

Charles Davis, Prisoner 1864. 

Frederic S. Day. 

Henry N. Darhng, Recruit, 1862. 

Dwight Freeman. 

Frederic L. Fuller. 

Harrison E. Goodnow, Transferred to Invalid Corps 1863. 

Oseolo Goodnow. 

George Gilraore, Wounded at Petersburg 1864. 

John W. Gilmore, Died April 1862. 

Edwin A. Giles, Transferred to Invalid Corps 1863. 

Willard Hodgeman, Discharged Sept. 1862. 

William P. Huntoon. 

William Hill, Killed 1862. See Personal History. 

Hiram M. Huse, Died Feb. 1864. 

George F. Jackson. 

D. W. Joslyn. 

L. S. Jillson, Died at Roanoke, Feb. 1862. 

Milton N. Jillson, Wounded May 1864. 

James Kelley. See Personal History. 

Alvin King, Wounded jMay 1864. 

George L. Kendall, Recruit of 1862. 

F. X. Lamore, Died Nov. 1862. 

Fernaldo L. Lord, Recruit 1862. See Personal History. 



HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. 85 

James Miller, Prisoner May 1864. 

Prescott M. IMetcalf, Corp. June 1863. Prisoner. 

Edmund Moore. See Personal History. 

Alonzo Murdock, Detailed for Signal Corps. 

Greo. W. Meacham. See Personal History. 

Norris B. Meacham. See Personal History. 

George A. Martin, Discharged April 1862. 

George Morse, See Pei'sonal History. 

George D. Mason, Discharged Aug. 1862. 

Patrick M. McGowen, Died Dec. 1861. 

Horatio W. McClellen, Corp. June 1863. See P. History. 

S. E. Oliver. See Personal History. 

Franklin Oliver, Jr. See Personal History. 

James Oliver 2d, Recruit of 1862. See Personal History. 

Dexter Oakes. 

Alphonso Oakes, Discharged Jan. 1864. 

William H. Oakes, Died Jan. 1862. 

Howard L. Procter, Wounded at Newbern. 

Isaac Powers, Wounded March 1862. Died April 1863. 

Emory A. Peckham. See Personal History. 

Albert D. Pond. See Personal History. 

Adin P. Pierce, Discharged March 1868. 

J. Henry Packard. See Personal History. 

Foster W. Phelps. See Personal History. 

Adolphus Porter, Wounded March 1862. Disch. Sept. 1862 

Hosea B. Rice, Discharged April 1862. 

Charles Reynolds, Died Dec. 1861. 

Henry L. Rawson. 

James H. Richardson. See Personal History. 

Samuel Rich. See Personal History. 

Loren Ramsdell. 

Harvey Robbius, Recruit 1862. See Personal History. 

Forbes Stone. 

Dwight Stone. 

William H. Stone, Recruit of 1862. 



86 HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. 

Jason Stoddard, Transferred to Invalid Corps Aug. 1863. 

J. C. Smith. Discharged April 1863. 

Henry D. Steward, Discharged Oct. 1862. 

John B. Slate, Wounded June 1864. Recruit. 

Henry Smith, Recruit 1862. See Personal History. 

Charles Stebbins, Recruit 1862. 

Charles »Sears, Recruit 1862. See Personal History. 

Albert Simouds, Recruit 1862. See Personal History. 

Lauriston A. Thorpe. See Personal History. 

Robert W. Thrower, Died March 1862. See Personal History. 

George D. Townsend, Corp. 1862. See Personal History. 

Asa Tilden, Recruit 1862, Prisoner 1864. 

N. B. Twichell, Recruit 1862, Corp. 1863. See P. History. 

Alonzo J. Thomas, Wounded May 1864. 

Amos Upham, Discharged Aug. 1862. 

George Ward, Discharged Oct. 1862. 

George ]M. Williams. Discharged Aug. 1862. 

Theodore Washburn, See Personal History. 

Dexter B. Washburn, Trans, to Comp. E. Oct. 1861. 

William H. Whipple, Discharged April 1862. 

George M. Whitney, Wounded, Discharged Oct. 1862. 

Horace W. Whitaker, Discharged Oct. 1862. 

Henry Weeks, Discharged Sept. 1862. 

Levi W. Wood, Quarter Master Sergeant Jan. 1863. 

E. W. Whitney, Recruit 1862. See Personal History. 

Wesley A. Woodward, Recruit 1862. Prisoner 1864. 

Ebenezer Winslow, Recruit 1862. Wounded May 1864. 

Nelson G. Wood Killed. See Personal History. 

Recruits of 1864. 
James H. Allen, Prisoner May 1864. 
Thomas Barber, Wounded June 1864. 
James L. Bragdon, Prisoner May 1864. 
John R. Burgess, Veteran. 
John M. Dodge, Prisoner May 1864. 
George S. Dresser, Prisoner. See Personal History. 



HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. 87 

Theodore E. Galer, Prisoner May 1864. 

Daniel L. Grardner. 

Greorge H. Dodge, Killed June 1864. 

Charles D. Grilniore. 

G. Holenbeck, Prisoner May 1864. 

John W. Howe, Prisoner. See Personal History. 

Reuben Huntoon, Veteran. Prisoner IMay 1864. 

Moses M. Huse. 

Norman Kline. 

Martin 0. Makley. 

L. W. Mason. 

Aaron Oliver. See Personal History. 

Frank Smith. 

James H. Trask. 

Greorge E. Trask. 

Oscar Washburn. See Personal History. 

Charles W. Wheeler Jr., Killed May 1864. 

Charles E. Wright, Prisoner May 1864. 

Justus Lyman became 2d Lieutenant and was 
taken Prisoner May 1864. 

1st. Lieutenant Frederic C. Wright received a 
death wound June 5, 1864 while standing by the 
side of Capt. Caswell. 

Mark Rankin 1st Sergeant was taken Prisoner 
May 1864, so were Sergeants Charles Gray, Levi 
Bosworth and Henry H. Bush. Also at the same 
time Corporals John Bolles and W. P. Huntoon 
were taken prisoners and twenty-three Privates, 
whose names appear above. 

Of the thirty men taken prisoners May 1864, 
eight were from Atliol viz, Charles Gray, Joseph 



^^ HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. 

Bracewell, George S. Dresser, John W. Howe, N. 
B. Meacham, S. K Oliver, Samuel Rich and James 
H. Eichardson. Of these eight men one half, 
viz, Messrs Dresser, HoAve, Oliver and Rich died 
at Andersonville Ga. of cruel treatment and 
starvation, while Messrs Meacham and Richard- 
son but just survived their long imprisonment. 
How many of their comrades from Company B 
shared the same fate is unknown. 

After Company B had been in service more 
than two years, 24 men belonging to it, re-en- 
listed for the additional term of three years or 
for the war, Viz, Hiram Blair, Levi Bosworth, 
John W. Brizzee, John Clark, Charles Gray, W. 
P. Huntoon, Hiram M. Huse, Daniel W. Joslyn, 
Alvin King, D. W. Larned, Addison Leach, F. L. 
Lord, H. W. McClellen, P. M. Metcalf, James Mil- 
ler, Dexter Oakes, A. D. Pond, Henry L. Rawson, 
John B. Slate, Henry Smith, Asa Tilden, George 
D. Townsend, N. B. Twichell and Theodore 
Washburn. As a part of Gen. Burnside's Com- 
mand, Company B of the 27th Regiment was 
first under fire at the Capture of Roanoke Island 
N.C. Feb. 8, 18G2, and next at the capture of 
Newbern. In the latter engagement the Regi- 
ment lost 15 killed and 78 wounded. The be- 
havior of the men, in these, its early engage- 
ments was good. Company B engaged in the 
expedition to Hamilton N.C. and was absent, 



HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. 89 

making forced marches, 14 clays. At Rawle's 
Mills, it was held in reserve. In Dec. 1862 it 
took part in the expedition to Goldsboro' N C 
and fought the battles of Kinston, White Hall 
and Goldsboro'. In Jan. 1863, it was sent to 
Washington N.C., and was one of the two Com- 
panies that garrisoned the block-houses on the 
Greenville and Plymouth roads. In the latter 
part of March, the famous siege of Washington 
N.C. commenced, and this lasted 17 days. The 
force of the rebels was greatly superior to ours, 
but all Its efforts to capture the place were baf- 
fled. The weather was cold and rainy, and our 
troops had but a small supply of rations and 
ammunition, but they lay in the trenches night 
and day, and the whole Eegiment lost but one 
killed and eight wounded. The siege having 
been raised and some of the enemy having been 
captured in the pursuit, Company B returned to 
Newbern. Our men were next engaged in the 
expedition to Batchelder's Creek, and this was 
followed in May by the successful fight at Gum 
Swamp. After making a number of less impor- 
tant excursions in North Carolina, the 27th Re- 
giment was ordered to Newport News, Va and 
formed a part of Heckman's Brigade. Company 
B remained some time at Norfolk as Provost- 
guard, and while there the re-enlisted men came " 
home on a furlough of 30 days. In April 1864 



90 HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. 

our men took part in an expedition beyond Suf- 
folk, Va. and returned in a furious snow storm. 
In May the Regiment was in Yorktown and the 
knapsacks and all superfluous baggage were sent 
back to Portsmouth Va. for safe keeping. Our 
troops were soon sent up the James River and 
hmded at Bermuda Hundred. In the battle at 
Port Walthall the 27th Regiment had the ad- 
vance, and the enemy suffered severely. The 
heat at that time was intense and there were 
150 cases of sun-stroke in the Brigade in a 
single day. 

May 9th the 27th Regiment was again in the 
advance as our troops moved towards Petersburg 
Va. At Arrowfield Church, the enemy were en- 
countered and made a desperate but, to them, 
fatal charge upon our lines. Company B lost 
three of the four men that were killed at that 
time. May 15th near Drury's Bluff, the 27th 
Regiment was hard at work constructing breast- 
works of logs, rails and dirt, with only a dozen 
shovels, while firing was constantly going on. 

May 16, a heavy fog prevailing, the enemy 
made a furious attack ; and it was so difficult to 
tell friend from foe, that the 27th Regiment was 
unexpectedly surrounded and a large part of it 
captured. Of the 252 men of this Regiment 
that were made prisoners, thirty belonged to 
Company B. Their names have been already 



HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. 91 

given. Capt. Caswell was sick at the time of 
tins disaster, but June 3, was in the battle at 
Coal Harbor. In this engagement a piece of a 
shell struck him between his shoulders, which 
knocked him down, but in 15 minutes he was 
able to take command of the Regiment, Major 
VValker having been killed. The fighting and 
the marches at that time were terrible." The 
enemy was desperate while the dust and the 
stench from dead men and dead horses, was 
intolerable. In front of Petersburg our men 
were m the trenches during the hottest weeks 
ot the summer and constantly under fire. In 
►Sept. ]864, the remnant of the Regiment went 
to Norfolk, Ya., and on the 27th of that month 
those whose term af service had expired were 
mustered out and returned home. The other 
part of the Regiment returned to North Caro- 
lina, and after various services in that State 
was engaged in another desperate encrac^ement 
near Kinston. In this battle, which was followed 
by the capture of that place, the 27th Regiment 
with the 15th Connecticut Regiment became sep- 
arated from the other troops, and nearly all in 
the two Regiments were taken prisoners. Ten 
officers and 179 enlisted men of the 27th were 
captured and enough of the Connecticut troops 
to make the whole loss 26 officers and 940 men. 
The prisoners were taken to Weldon N.C. and 



92 HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. 

from tlienoe to Richmond, having been previous- 
ly robbed of their money and clothing. At 
Richmond they were furnished with food and 
clothing by Capt. Stewart of the 146th N. York 
Reo'iment, who had been released to attend to 
the wants of our men. These prisoners were 
paroled for exchange and reached Annapolis 
March 27th 1865. Of Company B three were 
severely wounded in the engagement which re- 
sulted so disastrously, near Kinston, viz. : Acting 
2d Lieut. D. W. Larned, F. L. Lord and John 
Clark. These have all recovered. The Rebel- 
lion having been effectually suppressed early in 
April, the services of the 27th Regiment w^ere no 
lono;er needed and in June 180 5, the men com- 
posing it were mustered out and returned 
home. 

Before the three years for which the men 
originally enlisted, had expired. Company B had 
been in eleven battles and four skirmishes beside 
being under constant picket fire, with frequent 
shelling for 90 days in Virginia and 17 days in 
North Carolina. In all these eno:au;ements with 
the enemj' and under this fire for 107 days Com- 
pany B lost six killed and 24 wounded. Four of 
the 24 were wounded twice or more each. Nine 
of these wounds were severe and the remaining 
nineteen were slight. George II. Dodge, Joseph 
Drake, \Yilliam Hill, N. B. Twichell, Charles W. 



HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. ^3 

Wheeler and Nelson G. Wood were killed in bat- 
tle or died soon after from wounds received. 

Twenty others died of various diseases or cas- 
ualties during the three years covered by the 
original enlistment, viz. : 

Horatio R. Blackmer, of Small Pox. 

M. S. Cusbing, of Consumptiou. 

J. W. Gilmore, of Fever. 

W. A. Goodale, of Putrid Sore throat. 

J. S. Hodge, Killed by cars. 

H. M. Huse, Small Pox. 

L. S. Jillson, Fever. 

F. X. Lamore, Chronic Diarrhea. 

H. W. 3IcClellen, of Scarlatina. 

P. McGowan, of Measles. 

W. H. Oakes, of Fever. 

Isaac Powers, killed by a fall. 

Charles Reynolds, of Measles. 

Harvey Robbins, of Fever. 

W. H. Sprague, of Consumption. 

Robert W. Thrower, of Fever. 

Samuel Rich, Prisoner, of Chronic Diarrhea. 

Sylvanus E. Oliver, Prisoner, of Chronic Diarrhea 

John ^Y. Howe, Prisoner, of Chronic Diarrhea. 

George S. Dresser, Prisoner, of Chronic Diarrhea. 

How many others of the Company died like 
the four last mentioned in rebel lorisons it is im- 
possible to say. 

Three of the six killed and nine of the twenty 
dying of diseases or accidents were from Athol. 
One hundred and sixty men, including recruits, 



94 HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. 

belonged to Company B, during the three years 
of the oriQ;inal enlistment. 

The sanitary and moral condition of Company 
B, from first to last, was excellent, and this was 
due in no small degree to the care and energy of 
Capt. Caswell in enforcing the rules of sobriety 
and temperance. A braver Company, it is be- 
lieved, did not enter the service, for never were 
these men found wanting. 



Company E, 53d Regiment, Mass. Volunteer 
Militia. Enlisted to serve for nine months. 

Additional particulars. 

This Company was constituted as follows. 
Farwell F. Fay, Athol, Captain. See Personal 
History. B. H. Brown, Royalston, 1st Lieutenant. 
Varnum V. Vaughan, New Salem, 2d Lieut. 

Byroa A. French Athol, 1st Sergeant. 
Alfred T. King Phillipston, 2d Sergeant. 
Adriel C. WTiite Royalston, 3d Sergeant. 
David Hamilton Jr. New Salem, 4th Sergeant. 
Enoch T. Lewis xVthol, 5th Sergeant. 
Alonzo French Royalston 1st Corporal. 
Edward F. Stratton New Salem 2d Corporal. 
Levi B. Fay Athol 3d Corporal. 
George W. Warner New Salem 4th Corporal. 
Freeman Gr. Perry Athol 5th Corporal. 
Emerson E. Bissell Royalston 6th Corporal. 
Greorge W. Knights Royalston 7th Corporal. 



HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. 95 

Frederic A. Stratton Athol 8tb Corporal. 
Jorrj C. Haskins New Salem Musician. 

Privates. 
Horace W. Andrews, New Salem, Sick 3 montlis. 
Charles H. Bliss New Salem. Died July 1SG3. 
Francis H. Bliss New Salem. In the battles. ' 
Charles P. Bliss New Salem. In the battles. 
Harding R. Barber Athol, See Personal History. 
Adolphus Bangs Athol, See Personal History. 
Thomas Burns Athol, See Personal History. 
Otis B. Boutwell Athol, See Personal History. 
Willis H. Barton Royalstou. In Hospital 4 months. 
Amos B. Bosworth Royalston.* In Hospital 4 months 
Joseph W. Bosworth Royalston. Sick. Discharged 
Ephraim F. Chase Athol, See Personal History. 
Cyrus W. Conant Athol, See Personal History. 
Artemas W. Conant Athol, See Personal History 
Edmond P. Clapp Athol, See Personal History. 
David Casavant Athol, See Personal History. 
Marshall Collins Athol, See Personal History 
Welcome J. Cleaveland Athol, See Personal History 
Edward W. Cross Royalston. Wounded at Port Hudson 
Anthony Y. Dimock Athol. See Personal History 
Snneon S. Drury Athol. See Personal History 
George W. Drury Jr. Athol. See Personal History. 
Un C. Day Royalston. Died April 1863. 
Bernard H.Doane Royalston. Sick. Discharged Jan. 1863. 
Edward M. Ellis New Salem. Prisoner 2 weeks 
William G. Fay Athol. See Personal History 
Freeborn R. Fay Athol. See Personal History 
Azro B. Folsom Athol. See Personal History 
Leyton W. Follett Athol. See Personal History 
Martm Falan, Royalston. Served in all engagements. 
Charles Fisher, New Salem. Sick 4 months. 
John K. Freeman, New Salem. Sick 3 months 



96 HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. 

Jacob 0. Gould Atliol. See Personal History. 

Alfred Goddard Atbol. See Personal History. 

Charles V. Goddard Athol. See Personal History. 

Reuben Gibson, New Salem. Sick. In Hospital. 

Aaron H. Holt, Atbol. See Personal History. 

George L. Hancock, Pvoyalston. Died Marcb 1863. 

James N. Hunt, Royalston. Served in health. 

William A. Judd, Atbol. See Personal History. 

Arthur N. Judd, xVtbol. See Personal History. 

Charles W. Kendall, Athol. See Personal History. 

Lauriston I. King, Athol. See Personal History. 

George W. Lincoln, Atbol. See Personal History. 

George F. Moore, Athol. See Personal History. 

James A. Moore, Atbol. See Personal History. 

John S. Moore, Royalston. Prisoner from June 23 to July 9. 

Henry C. Moore, Royalston. Died at New Orleans April 1862. 

George W. IMorgan Royalston. Wounded at Port Hudson 

June 1868. 
George McRae, Athol. See Personal History. 
Andrew J. JSForcross, Royalston. Sick 4 months. 
Adin Oakes, Atbol. See Personal History. 
Ozi Oliver, Atbol. See Personal History. 
Freeman G. Perry, Atbol. Corporal 1862. See Personal History. 
Rufris Putnam Athol. See Personal History. 
Walter T. Putnam, New Salem. Killed at Port Hudson. 
Herman M. Partridge, Royalston. Quarter blaster Sergeant. 
Asa L. Palmer, Royalston. Detailed as Blacksmith. 
Jaraes L. Powers, New Salem. Sick after June 1863. 
John R. Pierce, Athol. See Personal History. 
George 0. Richardson, Royalston. Furlough 30 days, did not 

return. 
George W. Russell, Royalston. Served in all engagements. 
Henry H. Stratton, Atbol. See Personal History. 
Harrison Stockwell, Atbol. See Personal History. 
Spencer Stockwell, Athol. See Personal History. 



HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. 97 

Warren E. Smith, Athol. See Personal History. 

Henry S. Smith, New Salem. Died May, 1863. 

Elbridge L. Smith, New Salem. Died July 1863. 

Henry H. Southland, Athol. See Personal History. 

Peter Stanton, Athol. See Personal History. 

W. W. Sherwiu, Royalston. Sick after fall of Port Hudson. 

Harlan P. Townsend, Athol. See Personal History. 

Charles H. Tyler, Athol. See Personal History. 

William L. Thrower, Athol. See Personal History. 

Warren Thatcher, Royalston. 

Charles E. Tenney, Royalston. Died April 1863. 

Abner E. Towne New Salem. Died July, 1863. 

David Walker, Athol. See Personal History. 

Freeman H. Walker, Athol. See Personal History. 

George B. Wood, Athol. See Personal History. 

John 31. Wood, Royalston. Died May 1863. 

George H. Wood, Royalston. Left sick at New York, Jan. 1863. 



Commissioned and Non-Commissioned Officers. 

The history of those from Athol will be found 
under their respective names. 

1st Lieut. Benj. H. Brown was left sick at Al- 
giers La. April 9, 1863 ; rejoined the Company 
May 13th. Was sick at the capture of Port 
Hudson. 

2d Lieut. V. V. Vaughan, was detailed in charge 
of Convalescent Camp, Carrolton La. Jan. 1863; 
returned to the Company May 2d, and returned 
to Mass. sick, after the fall of Port Hudson. 

Sergeant A. T. King was sick after May, 1863. 

1st Corporal Alonzo French was appointed 



98 HISTORICAL N^ARRATIVE. 

Corj^oral May 1, 1863 in the place of George 0. 
Richardson, reduced to the ranks for absence. 

Edward F. Stratton was sick from April 19. to 
May 15. 

G. C. Warner was detailed Color Guard, Feb. 
2d 18G3. 

E. E. Bissell was in Hospital from Feb. 10th 
till Aug. 11,, 1863. 

C. W. Kendall was detailed in Quarter Master's 
Department April 8, 1863, and Freeman G. Perry 
was made Corporal in his place. 

Corporal G. W. Knights died in New Orleans 
April 10, 1863, and J. Orlando Gould was made 
Corporal in his place. Mr. Gould also died July 
27, 1863. 



Company E, of the 53d Regiment, remained in 
Camp with the Regiment at Carrolton La. from 
Feb. 1, 1863 till March 5, when it left for Baton 
Rouge and arrived there on the 7th of the same 
month. March 13, it marched with the forces of 
the Department on Port Hudson, but as the at- 
tack on the latter place was postponed it return- 
ed to Baton Rouge March 20th. April 1, it left 
for Algiers La. and arrived there the next day. 
April 9, it marched for Berwick Bay, and two 
days later started with the expedition under 
Gen. Banks for Opelousas and Alexandria La. 



HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. 99 

On the 12th and 13th of April, it was engaged in 
the battles of Fort Bisland, when the Regiment 
was for the first time under fire. The Fort was 
captured, and April 20, the Array reached Opelou- 
sas. The weather was very hot, and the roads 
very dry and dusty, but the men moved on like 
veterans. The whole distance marched when the 
Regiment had reached Opelousas was 480 miles. 
The Regiment left for Alexandria May 5, and 
arrived there on the 8th. On the 18th, it was at 
Simsport, 75 miles from Alexandria, and it crossed 
the Atchafalaya River on the 20th. May 22d at 7 
o'clock P.M. it embarked on board the Laurel Hill 
for Bayou Sara, and arriving on the 23d, marched 
at once to join the Brigade in the rear of Port 
Hudson. The nit>;ht followino;, the wdiole Reo-i- 
ment was on picket duty, and the next day it 
moved forward with the whole force. May 24th 
the Regiment skirmished in the woods as guard 
for the Engineer Corps, and led the column. On 
the evening of the next day, the Regiment re- 
lieved the 91st New York Reg. as advance pick- 
et, and about 9 o'clock p.m. received a volley 
from the enemy with some loss. The firing was 
returned, and at daylight, an attack on the left 
was repulsed. May 27th the Regiment moved 
forward in line of battle for the first general at- 
tack upon Port Hudson. At 7j o'clock, it was 
ordered to the front to support the 1st Maine 



100 HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. 

Battery, when for two hours it was under a con- 
tinuous fire of shot and shell. At 10| o'clock, it 
was agnin ordered forward to the front line of 
skirmishers, where it engaged the sharp shooters 
of the enemy and held the point till the after- 
noon of the next day. Up to this time the loss 
in the Regiment had been thirty killed and 
wounded. From the last mentioned date, the 
Reo;iment was under fire, buildino; breast-works 
and doing picket duty, for the space of eight 
days. June 5, it marched with the Brigade in 
pursuit of the enemy to Clinton La. but returned 
without an enffag^ement after four davs. The 
heat was now intense, and this expedition was 
unusually severe. 

Haviuii: returned to Port Hudson, the Reg-i- 
ment early in the morning of June 14th advanced 
as third line of skirmishers in the second general 
attack upon Port Hudson. The battle continued 
all that day, with a loss in the Regiment of 
Eighty six killed and wounded. The sufferings 
of that day were terrible, for the a.ssault proved 
a failure. After this the Regiment supported 
Battery A, U. S. Artillery till the surrender of 
Port Hudson. Since leaving Opelousas, the Re- 
i»;iment had marched 280 miles. The losses be- 
fore Port Hudson in Company E were two killed 
and eight wounded. 

Port Hudson was surrendered to Maj. Gen. 



HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. 101 

Banks July 8, 1863 and the next clay the 53d 
Regiment left for Plain Stores. July lltli our 
men started for Baton Rouge, and on the 15tli 
went to Donaldsonville La, where they remained 
till orders were received to prepare to leave for 
home. The detailed and sick men were broni2;ht 
together, and Aug. 12th the Regiment left Baton 
Rouge for the North by the way of the Missis- 
sippi River and Cairo 111. From Cairo the journey 
was made by Rail Road to Fitchburg and the Re- 
giment arrived at the latter place on the morning 
of Aug. 24:th 1863. At Fitchburg a public re- 
ception was given to the Regiment by the people 
from the towns in which the several Companies 
had been recruited. Isaac Stevens Esqr was the 
member of the General Committee for Athol, 
and Calvin Kelton Esqr was appointed by the 
citizens of Athol their Marshal. With Messrs 
Stevens and Kelton were associated Mr. Dex- 
ter Aldrich, Mr A. L. Cheney, Dr A. G. Williams 
and Rev. John F. Norton as a Committee to assist 
in caring for the sick soldiers. Of these six were 
found who were at once brought home by their 
friends and by the Committee, viz. Daniel Casa- 
vant, Lauriston I. King, Charles H. Tyler, Charles 
V. Goddard, Warren E. Smith and Azro B. Fol- 
som. 

All the members of the Company were per- 
mitted to return home on the evening of the 

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102 HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. 

same day ; and they were welcomed at the Athol 
Depot by a large concourse of their friends and 
fellow citizens. 

Sept. 2d the men were discharged from the 
service of the United States, their term of en- 
listment having expired ; and Sept. 10th those 
belonging to Company E, were paid off at the 
Office of Capt. F. F. Fay. 

Though they enlisted for nine months only, 
nearly or quite an entire year was consumed by 
these men in military service. 

Of the 96 officers and soldiers constituting 
Company E, 53d Regiment, who w^ere mustered 
into the United States service at Camp Stevens, 
Groton Junction, Oct. 17, 1862, one, viz Spen- 
cer Stockwell of Athol died in said Camp. While 
the Company was in Franklin Street Barracks, 
New York City, Geo. B. Wood was discharged, 
and died the next day. 

B. H. Doane of Royalston being sick was also 
discharged in New York before the Regiment 
left for the seat of War, while Charles P. Bliss 
of New Salem joined Company E, and was mus- 
tered into the service in New York. The num- 
ber of men in the Company when it embarked 
for New Orleans was therefore ninetj^ four. Of 
these Lauriston I. King of Athol and George H. 
Wood of Royalston were left in the Hospital at 
New York sick. Mr. King at a later period joined 



HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. 103 

his Company at the seat of War, but Mr. Wood 
was unable to do so. 

Seventeen men of Company E, including 
Spencer Stockwell were either killed in battle or 
died of wounds or disease while these men were 
in service, viz. 

Spencer Stockwell, Nov. 20, 1862, at Groton Junction, Diph- 
theria. 

Greorge L. Hancock, March 29, 1863, Carrolton La. C. Diar- 
rhoea. 

George W. Knights, April 10, 1863, New Orleans, of C. Diar- 
rhoea. 

Uri C. Day, April 18, 1863, Baton Bouge, of C. Diarrhoea. 

W. J. Cleaveland, April 24, 1863, Berwick Bay, Measles. 

Charles E. Tenney, April 26, 1863, New Orleans, C. Diar- 
rhoea. 

Henry C. Moore, April 29, 1863, New Orleans, C. Diarrhoea. 

Henry S. Smith, May 9, 1863, Berwick Bay, Brain Fever. 

John M. Wood, May 15, 1863, Baton Rogue, C. Diarrhoea. 

Walter T. Putnam, June 14, 1863, Port Hudson, Killed in 
Battle. 

Adin Oakes, June 29, 1863, Baton Rouge, Wounds. 

C. H. Bliss, July 1, 1863, New Orleans, C. Diarrhoea. 

Abner E. Towne, July 3, 1863, Baton Rogue, C. Diarrhoea. 

Cyrus W. Conant, July 10, 1863, New Orleans, C. Diarrhoea. 

Marshall Collins, July 14, 1863, Baton Rogue, C. Diarrhoea. 

J. 0. Gould, July 27, 1863, Baton Rogue, C. Diarrhoea. 

E. L. Smith, .July 29, 1863, New Orleans, C. Diarrhoea. 

After the return of the Company, viz Nov. 
2d, 1863, Lauriston I. King died of disease con- 
tracted in the service. 



104 HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. 

Of the ninety seven men including C. P. Bliss, 
composing Company E, three were discharged 
and seventeen died before the return of the 
Regiment, leaving seventy seven to be accounted 
for, which was the number mustered out of ser- 
vice at Camp Stevens, Groton Junction, Sept. 2d, 
1863. 

During the month of April 1863, the average 
number of men belonging to this Company who 
were fit for military duty was not far from 55. 
In May, it was reduced to 41 or 42. In June, it 
was not more than 32, while it was sometimes as 
low as 24. In July, it was about the same, and 
at the surrender of Port Hudson, the Company 
mustered but 25 non-commissioned Officers and 
Privates. 

It is remarkable, not that so many of the men 
were sick but rather that any were well, when 
we consider that the men had not become accli- 
mated, that their encampments were often in un- 
healthy locations, that the heat was very oppress- 
ive, that their marches were long and tedious 
and their service in the trenches before Port 
Hudson exceedingly exhausting. 

The pledge that follow^s throws light upon the 
moral condition of this Company. 

" We the undersigned, members of Capt. F. F. 
Fay's Company, realizing the necessity of guard- 
ing against the evil temptations that are liable 



HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. 105 

to come in contact with young men just com- 
mencing the duties of a soldier's hfe, and being 
desirous of returning to our homes at the expi- 
ration of nine months, with characters as pure 
and unsullied as when we bid our friends adieu ; 
Now therefore, do hereby pledge ourselves to ab- 
stain from the use of all intoxicating drinks as 
a beverage during the said period of nine 
months ; and moreover by our influence, both 
in word and in deed we pledge ourselves to dis- 
countenance every thing that tends to profanity, 
vulgarity or obscenity and at all times to con- 
duct ourselves as pure, high minded men. 

Camp Stevens, Groton Junction Oct. 2, 1862." 

To this are attached the names of F. F. Fay 

Captain, B. H. Brown 1st Lieut, V. V. Vaughan 

2d Lieut, and of other members of the Company 

to the number of Sixty Six. 



Commissioned Officers. 

Of these Atliol furnished Fifteen. 

George H. Hoyt was 2d Lieutenant and Cap- 
tain in the 1st Kansas Cavalry, and at a later pe- 
riod Lieut. Colonel in the 15th Kansas Cavalry. 

James Oliver Jr. was Assistant Surgeon and 
Surgeon of the 21st Kegiment Mass. Volunteers, 
and Assistant Surgeon and Surgeon of the 61st 



106 HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. 

Regiment. In June 1865 he was made Brigade 
Surgeon. 

Alfred G. Williams was Assistant Surgeon in 
the 11th Regiment and at a later period Contract 
Surgeon on board the Ilosjoital Boat " Nashville," 
on the Mississippi River and in the Hospital of 
the Rebel Prisoners at Elmira N. York. 

Rev. John N. Mars was Chaplain of the 1st 
North Carolina Colored Regiment. 

Farwell F. Fay was Captain of Company E, 
of the 53d Regiment and afterward Assistant 
Adjutant General of Mass. for recruiting pur- 
poses in the Department of Mississippi, assigned 
to the staff of Lieut. Colonel E. C. Kinsley. 

Adin W. Caswell was for three years service 
Captain of Company B, 27th Regiment. 

Ransom Ward was Captain of Company H, 1st 
Kxinsas Colored Infantry, now designated as 79th 
U. S. Infantry. 

Daniel W. Larned of the 27th Regiment was 
made Captain in said Regiment under the Gov- 
ernor's order May 15, 1865. 

George R. Hanson who had been in the Band 
of the 27th Reg. Inf and in the 2d Heavy Ar- 
tillery w\as commissioned 1st Lieutenant and af- 
terwards Captain in the 14th U. S. Colored 
Heavy Artillery. 

Albert D. Pond of the 27th Regiment was 
made 1st Lieutenant May 9, 1865. 



HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. 107 

John 0. Mowry of the same Regiment, in 
18G3 was made 2d Lieutenant of Company I of 
the 55th (Colored) Regiment, and afterward 1st 
Lieutenant of Company B, and then Quartermas- 
ter of the same Regiment. 

Lovell H. Horton was 2d Lieutenant of Com- 
pany B, 27th Regiment. 

Asa L. Kneeland was 2d Lieutenant of Com- 
pany K and 1st Lieutenant of Company F of 
the 32d Regiment. 

John D. Emerson of the 2d Regiment and af- 
terwards a Sergeant in the Signal Corps was 
made 2d Lieutenant in the 2d New York Heavy 
Artillery, June 1865. 

Seth F. Hale of the 21st Regiment was com- 
missioned 2d Lieutenant in the Mass. Militia, 
May 1865. 

The promotion of Non-Commissioned Officers, 
so far as this can be ascertained, will be noticed 
under the head of " Personal History " in this 
Record. 



Of the families in Athol that made great sac- 
rifices to suppress the rebellion many deserve an 
honorable notice in this Record. 

James L, Merrill furnished five sons for the 
army, all of whom were courageous and faithful 
soldiers. Of these, three were very severely 



108 HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. 

wounded while the fourth nearly sacrificed his 
life to save that of a wounded brother. 

The family of Leander Phelps furnished four 
to fill the quotas from Athol, two of whom re- 
enlisted, and another entered the service a sec- 
ond time and was severely wounded. 

Franklin Oliver had four sons in the service, 
one of whom was severely wounded and another 
died in the rebel prison at Andersonville Ga. 

Isaac King had also four sons in the service, 
two of whom are dead. 

Albert Simonds followed two of his sons into 
the ranks and one of the latter was a prisoner at 
Andersonville and in other rebel prisons. 

Laban Morse Esqr. was our agent for the re- 
lief of our sick and wounded at Newbern N. 
C. and sent two sons to the war, 

George Morse went himself as a soldier and 
two of his sons did the same. 

Edward Nickerson had three sons in the ar- 
my, one of whom was a prisoner at Anderson- 
ville and in other places. 

Widow Dorinda Foster had three sons in the 
army, one of whom died in the service and 
another not long after his discharge. 

William Hill went into the service with two 
sons and was killed at Roanoke Island and one 
son died at the same place. 



HISTOEICAL NAERATIVE. 109 

Subscriptions to the Fund for paying Citizens' 
Bounties under the several calls for Troops, ex- 
clusive of the amounts paid in 1862. For the 
latter see page 50 of this Record. 

One of the Subscription Books circulated in 
District No. 1, under the call July 18, 1864, it 
has been impossible to find, but the lack of it 
has been supplied as far as possible. About 
Twenty Five Dollars however were paid upon 
that subscription that will not appear upon the 
pages that follow. 

The different subscriptions of each subscriber 
are embraced in a single sum. Entire correct- 
ness has been aimed at, in bringing together 
these amounts, but it is more than possible that 
some mistakes have been made. 

Amsden, Washington H. $95 Bruce, F 35 

Amsden, 10 Bangs, N 41 

Aldrich, D 70 Bangs, A 51 

Allen F 66 Bacon, J. B 5 

Adams, H. B 79 Beard, R 65 

Adams, C. H 28 Burbeck, J. W 55 

Adams, B 5 Babbitt, M. F llf 

Ames, Miss Alpha 2 Babbitt, T 5 

Black, G. W 75 Babbitt, L. D 53 

Baker, M 50 Babbitt, G. W 25 

Batchelder, L 6 Bullard, D 36 

Bailey, 1 46 Bullard, J. H 15 

Boutelle, J 16 Bullard, B. F 90 

Blake, T. H 8 Bullard, F 15 

Bruce, A. C 26 Benjamin, F. J 46 

10 



110 HISTOEICAL NARRATIVE. 

Bassett, C. C 75 Clark, J. E 42 

Bassett, C. C. Mrs 10 Casavant, D 15 

Bassett, E 3 Casavant, J 17 

Brown, 0. B 5 Croney, F. A 25 

Brown, W. C 5 Cardany, J. B 71 

Brown, E. F 45 Collier, J 25 

Bemis, S. A 10 Coolidge, J 57 

BaU, J. A 30 Coolidge, H. R 5 

Bates, F lOf Conant, A. B 35 

Bottomly, F 5 Conant, A. W 5 

Bannam, Q f Cheney, A 15 

Brooks, 0. T 51 Cheney, D 30 

Bancroft, CO 26 Clapp, S 21f 

Brock, N. H 23 Clapp, E. P 5 • 

Ballard, F. D 13 Carpenter, C. F 25 

Bigelow, D 12 Cunningham, B. 5 

Bigelow, O.J 30 Collar, L. S 40 

Briggs, M 20 Collar, G 5 

Briggs, J. S 5 Collar, C. W 16 

Briggs, T. M 25 Crossman, M 5 

Briggs, W 26 Cummings, S f 

Briggs, S. B lOf Davenport, C. W 81 

Bryant, 20 Davenport, J 10 

Boler, J 4 Davenport, 0. P 32 

Bliss, S. W 3 Davenport, D. B 11 

Bannon, C. W 71 Davenport, Sirs. L 10 

Barber, H. R 66 Davis, K 3 

Barnes, C.J 25 Davis, J. H 26 

Belden, J. H . 30 Drake, B. B 3 

Barry, G 10 Doyle, T 1 

Chubb, A. S 35 Dunbar, J. F 25 

Carter, A. W 63 Dexter, J. L 12 

Chase, A. P 8 Drury, D 56 

Chase, S. D 5 Drury, H 15 

Chase, E. F 41 Drury, E 30 



HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. Ill 

Drury, E. A 80 Folsom, A. B 30 

Drury, W 23 Goddard, G 50 

Drury, J. R ' 95 Goddard, F 56 

Drury, G. W., Jr 10 Goddard, D 15 

Drury, Jona, 2d 40 Goddard, David 25 

Drury, J 13 Goddard, A 28 

Drury, S. S 15 Gage, D 5 

Drury, G. W., 2d 15 Gage, E 25 

Ellis, E 95 Gage, M 15 

Elmore, S 3 Gage, E. J 18 

Eaton, 0. . . . 21 Gage, H. H 23 

Fuller, J. E 50 Gage, S 6 

Fuller, F 35 Goodspeed, T. H 85 

Fay, F. F 75 J aarfield, R 20 

Fay, F. R 15 Garfield, G. R 18 

Fay, J. H 40 Glennon, J 7 

Fay, W. G 15 Gardner, J 14^ 

Fay, S. E 71 Gray, H 10 

Fay, L. B 51 Gray, W. N : . . 30 

Fish, S 110 George, F. T 10 

Fish, W. W 90Gerry, G. M 15 

Fish, W 15 Gibbs, W. L 3 

Fisher, C. D 30 Hanson, J. N '. . . 60 

Friends 22 Holton, J. A 50 

Fletcher, A. F 60 Holton, S 5 

Fletcher, A. V 46 Hapgood, L. W 44 

Farr, H 8 Hathaway, S. B 5 

Farr, G 74 Horton, L. H 45 

Frost, W. H 5 Horton, E. B 22 

Flint, J 3 Hill, A 24 

Flint, C. F 10 Hill, M 133 

Fry, J 35 Hill, J. C 30 

Foskett, W 33 Harding, A. Jr 30 

Field, C 34 Haven, J 55 

Foster, N 5 Haven, J. F 23 



112 mSTOEICAL NAERATIVE. 

Haven, E 13f Jones, E 51 

Hagar, G. L 40 Jobbins, J. S 28 

Hagar, W 10 Knapp, H .' 45 

Houghton, M. H 11 Knapp, G. L 25 

Howard, J. R 5 Kendall, I. Y 89 

Howard, F. S 60 Kendall, G. N 26 

Howard, R 5 Kendall, 20 

Hunt, J. W 105 Kendall, C 10 

Hunt, H. B 61 King, A. F 71 

Hunt, 0. F 71 King, A. E 68 

Hunt, L. B 20 Kelton, C 45 

Holden, G. W 6 Kelton, J. M 16 

Holden, Wm 3 Kelton, C. W 28 

Humphrey, H. M 55 Knight, S. L 40 

Humphrey, J. F 5 Knox, 0. C 69 

Hayden, J 18 King, J. M 65 

Hayden, G. H 10 King, M 5 

Holt, H. W 15 Lee, J. M 75 

Horr, C 15 Lee, S 25 

Horr, G. H 35 Lee, H 13 

Horr, W 15 Lee, M. L 51 

Houghton, D. W 60 Lee, D 5 

Harris, J. S 56 Leach, V. W 71 

Harris, E. N 54 Lincoln, G. W 10 

Hemraenway, J 40 Lynde, J. P 165 

Harwood, J 2 Lamb, Z. W 38 

Harwood, B. B 5 Lamb, J 30 

Jennison, H 33 Leonard, W. M 59 

Johnson, R 20 Leonard, R. D 8 

Johnson, M. W 15 Lawrence, F 12 

Johnson, G. T 105 Lamson, J. W 50 

Jennings, L 5 Lord, F. G 95 

Jones, J. A 31 Lord, C. L 94 

Jones, D 30 Lord, G. Jr 97 

Jones, T. T 10 Lord, L. B 66 



HISTOEICAL NAERATIVE. 113 

Lord, E 70 Perry, J. W 65 

Lord, A 12 Peck, W 25 

Lord, F. Cr. & Co 15 Peck, P. L 10 

Lord, N. Y 90 Pond, G. S 50 

Lewis, J. S 6 Pond, F. L 18 

Lewis, J 16 Pratt, A 4 

Lewis E.T 10 Pitts, S. W 20 

Lewis, J. L lOPitts, S. B 66 

Lewis, H. A 15 Prouty, A 6f 

Lord, Emerson 5 Prouty, S. D 5 

Lord, J 7 Prouty, Gr 5 

Morse, C. B 41 Putnam, R 56 

Morse, C. W.....^ 56 Puffer, E. A 5 

Morse, S. R 15 Packard, J. F 8 

Moore, S. 23 Rickey, Q. W 60 

Moore, A 10 Rich, F 36 

Moore, C. W 15 Richardson, N 75 

Merriam, 65 Richardson, C. F 45 

McLane, N 10 Richardson, G. H 51 

Miller, 1 51 Reynolds, C.W 5 

Mann, W 60 Rice, J. M 80 

Meachum, J. C 28 Rice, C. E 10 

McRay, a 5Rice, S. R... ^^^ 

Norton, J. F 16 Raymond, F. H 10 

Nourse, H. C 48 Reynolds, H. L 23 

Nelson, Q. W 10 Shaw, F. W 25 

Newton, W 20 Smith, Erastus 39 

Newton, S 4 Smith, Royal 10 

Newell, A 20 Smith, D 66 

Olds, W 2f Smith, David 55 

Oliver, Ozi 45 Smith, H. C 44 

Oliver, 5 Smith, E 20 

Parmenter, F. C 60 Smith, W 10 

Parmenter, J. S 115 Smith, A 10 

Perry, F. G 40 Smith, R 15 

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114 HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. 

Smith, J. W 26 Sprague, G 10 

Smith, W 5 Sprague, L. K 56 

Shepherd, Joseph 10 Sprague, F. M 38 

Shepherd, J 4 Sanborn, W. B 15 

Southard, G 65 Sloan, J. W llf 

Sawyer, A. M 65 Sibley, S 3 

Sawyer, J. W 55 Thorpe, W. . '. 115 

Sawtelle, J. F 30 Thorpe, F 38 

StockweU, J 5 Thorpe, 10 

Stockwell, C 25 Thorpe, A 10 

StockweU, S. J 46 Thorpe, L 15 

Stockwell, S 20 Tohnan, A 15 

Stockwell, 0. J 15 Tolman, C. F 10 

Snow, J. W 18 Tolman, J. C 3 

Southland, H. H 10 Thrower, W. L 5 

Spear, C. T 6 Tenney, G. L 20 

Scott, 0. A 40 Thomas, E. A 46 

Stratton, A. G 79 Thomas, A. M 5 

Stratton, A. T 33 Thomas, G 5 

Stratton, J. H Ill Taylor, E. M 10 

Stratton, J 18 Tyler, P. C 35 

Stratton, Joseph 26 Tyler, C. H 15 

Stratton, A. 5 Totman, J. F 14 

Stratton, R 40 Townseud, E. F 35 

Stratton, G. L 85 Townsend, A 8 

Sanderson, C 5 Townsend, J 25 

Simonds,L. B 15 Townsend, H. P 10 

Simonds, N 5 Townsend, C. A 75 

Stevens, 1 29 Townsend, H. D 15 

Spooner, CM 105 TwicheU, S. E 40 

Stone, D. H 20 Twichell, B. M 15 

Stone, J. W 3 Twichell, E. L 20 

Swan, 5 Twichell, E. C 43 

Swan, J 74Utley, G. D 65 

Savage, T. W 15 Utley, Mrs 10 



HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. 115 

Unclei-woocl, G. P 25 Ward, L 5 

Underwood, C 20 Ward, N 10 

Williams, J. H 80 Wiggins, W. S 28 

Williams, E 5 Wiley, I. L 10 

Wood, J. C 58 Wiley, N 15 

Wood, J. E 26| Walker, F. H 20 

Wood, C. C 22 Willard, E. A 50 

Wood, B. E 25 Waite, A. J 50 

Wood, Joseph E 5 Wheeler, J 5 

Wood, D. F 65 Wheeler, J. A 5 

Wood, G 21| Willey, G.W 26 

Wood, J. K 5 Willey, A 3 

Worcester, G. H 15 Woodard, G. W 38 

Woodis, J. C 5 Woodard, C. W 16 

Whitney, J. W 3 Young, E. S 25 

Whitney, J. P 28 Amount $12,588 

Whitney, G. H 54 Not included in the 

White, J 10 above 25 

Warren, G.H 10 

Wilder, G 60 $12,613 

Ward, D. A 25 



Of this sum there was refunded to the subscrib- 
ers to raise funds under the last call for troops, 
unexpended money to the amount of $997, 
leaving as actually expended by the citizens of 
Athol to fill the different quotas in 1864 $11,616. 

The Towns and cities of the Commonwealth 
having been authorized to raise by taxation or 
otherwise funds " to reimburse money paid for 
recruiting purposes," by the individual citizens 
of any Town or City in the year 1864, 



116 HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. 

At a Town meeting legally called for June 10, 
1865, it was 

" Voted that the Town of Athol pay the seve- 
ral amounts contributed by individuals towards 
filling the several quotas of the Town or furnish- 
ing men for the service of the United States, 
under the several calls of the President of the 
United States or of the War Department, during 
the year 1864 ; and that the same shall be ascer- 
tained by the Selectmen and paid under their 
direction, the payment to be made on and after 
the 15th day of October next; and the sum of 
Thirteen Thousand Dollars or so much thereof 
as shall be necessary be raised and appropriated 
for that purpose. And no payment shall be 
made unless the claim is presented and proved, 
before Sept. 1, 1865." 

" Voted that so much money as shall be neces- 
sary to make the payments named in the fore- 
going vote, not exceeding Thirteen Thousand 
Dollars, be raised and assessed as a special tax, 
the bills to be committed on or before the 15th 
day of Sept. next, and the tax collected and paid 
into the treasury on or before the 15th day of 
October next." 

" Voted that no discount shall be allowed on 
this tax, and certificates of the Selectmen of the 
amount of money contributed by individuals for 
said purposes shall be accepted by- the Collector 
in payment of the Tax." 



HISTOEICAL NARRATIVE. 117 

At a Town Meeting, Aug. 16, 1865 the votes 
above recorded that were passed on the 10th 
day of June 1865, were rescinded, and by a vote 
of 141 in the affirmative and 98 in the negative, 
it was 

" Voted that it is not expedient for the Town 
to raise funds to refund the money contributed 
by individuals for recruiting purposes in the 
year 1864." 

And at another Town Meeting Aug. 28, 1865, 
a vote in precisely the same language was passed 
by 257 in the affirmative and 100 in the neg- 
ative. 



The record of what the people of Athol have 
done to aid in suppressing the Great Rebellion 
will be incomplete unless some statements are 
made respectitig the hospital stores and supplies 
of various kinds that were furnished for the re- 
lief and comfort of our brave and patriotic sol- 
diers. During the whole period covered by this 
record, individuals, families and neighborhoods 
were sending money and boxes of food and 
clothing to their kindred and friends in the army. 
No attempt will be made to estimate the value 
of these supplies, but we may safely say that 
they were deemed by the recipients of them in- 
valuable. 



118 HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. 

To the Christian Commission and one or two 
other agencies engaged in reheving our sick 
and wounded soldiers money was forwarded to 
the amount of $350.00. Soon after the war 
commenced the Ladies organized a Soldiers Aid 
Society in each of the two large villages, and 
these were in active operation till peace was 
restored. Of the Society in the Centre of the 
Town Mrs. Dr. George Hoyt was President and 
Mrs. Thomas H. Goodspeed Secretary and Trea- 
surer, and this furnished supplies as follows. 

May 4, 1861, a Box of Hospital supplies valued at $33.85 

May 27, 1861, a Box of Hospital supjilies 260.00 

Oct. 4, 1861, Soldiers' Comforts 75.00 

Oct. 16, 1861, Box of Quilts, Sheets &c 249.50 

Sept. 6, 1862. 2 barrels Clothing &c 127.00 

Dec. 22, 1862, 1 barrel dried Apples 9.87 

Jan. 8, 1863, Box of Clothing 55.00 

May 8, 1863, Barrel dried Apples 10.00 

July 11, 1863, Barrel dried Apples 12.25 

Jan. 3, 1864, 3 barrels Clothing &c 100.00 

June 1, 1864, 1 Box of Cotton and Linen 25.00 

Sept. 27, 1864, 5 Barrels of Vegetables, 1 Barrel 

Clothing 75.00 

March 14, 1865, 2 barrels of Clothing 90.00 

June 30, 1865, 1 barrel of Clothing 45.00 

June 30, 1865, Cash sent to Sanitary Commission.. 28.50 

Knitting 80 pairs of socks . 28.00 

Total amount of supplies forwarded chiefly by 

Mrs. Goodspeed $1223.47 



HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. 119 

The Soldiers Aid Society in Athol Depot of 
which Mrs. Walter Thorpe was the President till 
May 12, 1864 when Mrs. Otis Bancroft was ap- 
pointed upon Mrs. Thorpe's resignation, was in 
operation from the beginning till the end of the 
war. 

Miss Ellen M. Bigelow, Mrs. S. E. Fay, Miss 
Nettie Hill, Mrs. Harding R. Barber and Mrs. 
Lucius Sprague filled successively the office of 
Secretary and Treasurer of this Society; while 
its first President Mrs. Walter Thorpe was ap- 
pointed Assistant Manager of the Sanitary Com- 
mission in 1865. This Society sent through the 
Sanitary Commission for the relief of our sol- 
diers eleven Boxes and three Barrels chiefly of 
Hospital stores and supplies, the total value of 
which was estimated to be $808.43. 

Through what may be called the public chan- 
nels of aid to the soldiers, Athol therefore fur- 
nished, in money and supplies to the amount of 
$2381.90. Add to this. Hospital stores sent in 
1862 directly to Dr. Otis, Surgeon of the 27th 
Regiment at Newbern of the value of ninety five 
dollars and we have the sum of $2470.90 all of 
which was cheerfully given to comfort and suc- 
cor the brave defenders of our country. 

The total amount of indebtedness incurred by 
the Town of Athol on account of the war is as- 
certained by the Selectmen to be $18,880.94. 



120 HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. 

Of which there has been paid $8,987.36. 

Leaving unpaid March 1865 $9,893.58. 

Individual citizens have contributed to pay 
bounties $12,777.78. 

The cost of Substitutes and the amount paid 
for Commutation under the draft in 1863 was 
about $5430, making the total amount of ex- 
penses $39,565.62. 

No reference is here made to the large sums 
contributed for the comfort of the soldiers in a 
less public manner. 



HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. 121 



EXPLANATION OF THE TABLES THAT FOLLOW. 

1. No distinction is made in these Tables between Non-Commis- 
sioned Officers and Privates, as it seems desirable to give the 
names of the soldiers Alphabetically. 

2. The Age of each is that given at the time of enlistment. 

3. Blanks in the columns of Bounties indicate that no bounties 
were paid by the Town or by the citizens of Athol. No attempt is 
made to indicate the bounties paid by the State or by the United 
States. 

4. Blanks elsewhere indicate simply a failure to obtain the de- 
sired information. 

5. As a general rule, the soldiers whose age, birthplace, occupa- 
tion &c., are not given, were obtained through Brokers. 

6. In the case of the 53d Regiment the exact sum named was 
paid to each soldier as a Private or Citizens' bounty. In all other 
cases, this Column indicates only the average sum paid by the citi- 
zens in procuring the several recruits under a particular call for 
troops. To fill the same quota some received more than others, 
but the average amount is the only matter of any considerable 
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125.00 



125.00 



125.00 
125.00 



125.00 
125.00 
125.00 



125.00 
125.00 



125.00 



S236.13 



51.50 
51.50 



236.13 
236.13 



Remarks. 



Comp. I, Sin. 

" A, " 



51.50 
51.50 



Lives in 
Somers, Ct. 



Deserted 
March, '65. 



236.13 'Married. 
236.13 Sin.jfle. 
236.13' 



236.13 



Taunton, dis- 
ch'd, June,'65. 



236.13' 



REGIMENTS, COMPANIES, ETC. 



139 



NAME, 



4tli Mass. Cavalry. 

James Eagan 

Irving C. Gates 

A. S. Ladd 

W. F. Leavett 

J. E. Shattuck 

Thomas Thompson . . . 

5tli Mass. Cavalry. 



John Bliss 

Nelson Jackson. . 
George Michael. 
Jacob Sadler. . . . . 
Daniel T. Youngr. 



Battalion Cavalry. 



George G. Clark. 
Peter A. Drollet. 
Edwin Holmes. . . 
Willard Howard . 
A. Keen 



1st Mass. Battery. 
Patrick T. Adams. . . . 



Eleventli Battery. 
Joseph Hill 

3d U. S. Infantry. 

William Hohenfels . . . . 

Henry Johnston 

Charles Wilson 



5tli Illinois Cavalry. 
John Mier 



Town Bounty 



S125.00 
125.00 
125.00 
125.00 
125.00 
125.00 



125.00 
125.00 
125.00 
125.00 
125.00 



125.00 
125.00 
125.00 
125.00 
125.00 



125.00 



125.00 



125.00 
125.00 
12^00 



ilepresentati 



Citl'n's Bounty. 



Milton. Dis. 
Hubbard'n, " 



Somerville, 
Prov'nce, R. I. 



Remarks. 



Nov. 14, 1865. 

a u u 



Dis. Nov. '65. 

a a u 



236.13 One Year. 



236.13 
236.13 



236.13 



Discharged 



51.50 



236.13 



236.13 
236.13 
236.13 



Three Years. 
Two 



Frontier Ser. 

One Year. 
One Year. 
June 30, 1865. 



ve Reci uit for C. C. Bassett. 



140 REGIMENTS, COMPANIES, ETC. 



'TH U. S. Infantry. 


Tow 


N Bounty. 


John Dorn, 




SI 25.00. 


Patrick Folly, 




125.00. 


William Kennedy, 




125.00. 


George Kennedy, 




125.00, 


John Riely, 




125.00. 


103d U. S. colored 


TROOPS, 




THE 


STATE. 


Radley Fedley. Credited to Athol. 


Isaac Lucas. 


i( 


i( 


Jacob Youno;blood. 


(( 


it 



Citizen's Bounty. 

$51.50. 
51.50. 
51.50. 
51.50. • 
51.50. 

OBTAINED BY 



6th colored heavy ARTILLERY. 
Dennis Caldwell, Representative Recruit for Asa Hill. 

1st U. S. COLORED CAVALRY. 
William Freeman, Representative Recruit for Walter Thorpe. 

3d U. S. COLORED CAVALRY. 
Daniel Bruce, Representative Recruit for Calvin Kelton. 
Moses Wilkinson, Representative Recruit for Lewis Thorpe. 
Henry Williams, Representative Recruit for D. F. Wood. 

29TII MASS. UNATTACHED COMPANY. 

Arthur N. Judd, $125.00 from Town, $236.13 from Citizens. 

6th MASS. CAVALRY. 
James Harkins, see 31st Regiment. 

FORTY-SECOND REGIMENT, (100 Days.) 
Cutler Seaver, Company C ; born in Milford, 1 7 years old, 
and a Mechanic. 

SECOND HEAVY ARTILLERY. 
George R. Hanson, see 27th Regiment. 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 141 



Personal History of Athol Men while in the ser- 
vice of the United States for Suppressing the 
Great Rebellion. 

Jeduthan W. Ames, 32d Reg. (See page 129) 
joined the First Battalion at Fort Warren in 
Feb. 1862. This Battalion as the 32d Reg. was 
ordered May 25, 1862 to take the field at the 
earliest possible moment, and Mr. Ames went 
with it to Washington and afterwards to Harri- 
son's Landing on the James River Va. His 
health soon failed and after being sick three 
months he was discharged Nov. 22, 1862 and 
returned to Athol. Recovering his health he re- 
entered the service in the 21st Reg. early in the 
year 1864, joining the Reg. at Annapolis Md, 
Maj. Gen. Burnside being the Corps Command- 
er ; went with the Reg. into the great battles in 
Virginia and was wounded June 2, 1864 in the 
side, in the engagement at Bethesda Church. 
He was at once taken prisoner and removed to 
Richmond where he was kept three months, when 
he was exchanged, had a furlough, was in the 
Hospital two months and then discharged. 

Andrew J. Ames, 27th Reg. (See page 126), 
went with the Reg. to Annapolis and under Gen. 
Burnside to the Coast of North Carolina early in 



142 PERSONAL HISTORY. ^ 

the year 1862. During the long delay occa- 
sioned by storms and the difficulties encountered 
in crossing Hatteras Inlet, Mr. Ames suffered 
much, and his disease at length assumed the 
form of Congestion of the lungs which termi- 
nated fatally at Newbern N. C. April 2, 1862. 
He was buried at Newbern. His sickness pre- 
vented him from being in the ranks at the 
captures of Roanoke Island and Newbern. 

Lewis P. Atwood, 21st Reg. (See page 125), 
went with the Reg. to Annapolis where he was 
sick with the Measles, but recovered sufficiently 
to join in the Expedition under Gen. Burnside to 
N. Carolina ; was in the battle at the capture of 
Roanoke Island ; was sick at the capture of New- 
bern ; was in the battles at Camden N. C. the 2d 
Bull Run fight, Chantilly, Knoxville and Camp- 
bell's Station, Tennessee. Mr. Atwood was a 
nurse in the Hospitals at Boonsboro' and Fred- 
erick City Maryland 6 months ; and reenlisting 
Jan. 1, 1864, he came home on a furlough of 
forty days ; rejoined his Reg. at Annapolis in 
March 1864 and went with it to the front when 
Gen. Grant moved towards Richmond ; was in 
the battle of the Wilderness and also at Spott- 
sylvania, where he was severely wounded in the 
leg ; was removed to Alexandria and June 1, 
was brought to the Hospital at Portsmouth 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 143 

Grove E. I., where he remained m a very criti- 
cal situation for a number of months when he 
began to improve. Mr. A. was discharged as un- 
fit for service March 10, 1865, and returned 
home, lame, but recovering. 

Branch F. Ayers, 21st Reg. (See page 125), 
went with his Reg. to North Carolina and was 
in the engagements at the Captures of Roan- 
oke Island and Newbern ; was sick of the Ty- 
phoid Fever and in the Hospital at Beaufort N. 
C. and discharged as unfit for service June 30, 
186S In Sept. 1863, he reentered the service 
returning to the same Reg. and was with the 
Reg. in the battles at the Wilderness, Spottsyl- 
vania and on the North Anna, but his health 
again failing he was discharged Oct. 8, 1864. 

Adolphus Bangs, 53, Reg. (See page 131) went 
with the Reg. to Louisiana, was in the battle at 
the capture of Fort Bisland, and was sent from 
that place to New Orleans, April 14, 1863, in 
charge of the dead and wounded. Being sick, 
Mr. Bangs entered the Marine Hospital at N. Or- 
leans, May 7, 1863, where he remained till Aug. 
11, 1863, when he rejoined his Reg. and returned 
with it, Aug. 24, 1863. In the summer of 1864, 
Mr. Bangs accompanied Capt. F. F. Fay to 
Vicksburg and assisted him in recruiting from 



144 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

the States in Rebellion for the State of Massa- 
chusetts. 

Harding R. Barber, 53. Reg. (See page 131) 
went with the Reg. to Louisiana and was detailed 
in the Quartermaster's Department April 8, 1863. 
He rejoined his Company Aug. 9, 1863 and re- 
turned with it to his home Aug. 24, 1863 in good 
health. 

Charles H. Barton, 32. Reg. (See page 130) 
was in the Battalion formed at Fort Warren in the 
Autumn of 1861, was very sick at the For^ but 
gaining a little was brought home sick ; recover- 
ing in part he returned to the Fort and went 
with the Battalion which had become the 32 
Reg. to Washington and Harrison's Landing Va. 
Being sick, he was removed to the U. S. Hospi- 
tal West Philadelphia, where after recovering 
he remained 14 months doing guard duty and 
being detailed for detective service, going often 
to Washington in charge of recruits and desert- 
ers. Reenlisting, he joined his Reg. and was 
with it when Gen. Grant moved towards Rich- 
mond ; was sick with Fever and Ague three 
weeks in June 1864, was in the engagements 
when an advance was made upon the Weldon 
Rail Road, and at Hatcher's Run, went on the 
Weldon Rail Road raid during the following 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 145 

winter, was in the battles commencing March 
28th 1865 which resulted in the capture of 
Richmond and the surrender of Gen. Lee's ar- 
my, the 32d Reg. forming a pnrt of the troops 
whose duty it was to receive the rebel arras; 
went to Farmville and Burkesville and then into 
camp when he was detailed for duty at Head 
Quarters being part of the time a mounted Or- 
derly; was in the grand Review in Washington 
and finally was discharged with his Reg. June 
2d, 1865 and returned home in good health. 

Thomas G. Barry, 27. Reg. (See page 126), 
went with the Reg. to N. Carolina and was in the 
engagement at the capture of Roanoke Island ; 
while at that Island took a severe cold and was 
not able to participate in the capture of New- 
bern ; remaining sick he was discharged Sept, 
12, 1862 and returned to Athol where he died 
of the disease contracted in N. Carolina Oct. 18, 
1862. 

Warren A. Beaman, 9. Reg. (See page 123), 
was drafted July 1863 and reported for service, 
was mustered in Aug. 21, 1863 and joined the 
Reg. in Virginia. In May 1864 he was in the en- 
gagements when Gen. Grant moved towards 
Richmond and is supposed to have been taken 
prisoner in the battle of the Wilderness, or 



146 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

about that time; was carried to Andersonville 
Ga. and was in other rebel prisons ; was sick of 
Chronic Diarrhoea at the time when he was pa- 
rolled for exchange at Charleston S. C. which 
was in Dec. 1864 ; was brought to Annapolis 
very low, and died there Jan. 2, 18G5. His wife 
went on to minister to him, but was delayed on 
the way and he had been dead a few hours 
when she reached the Hospital at Annapolis. 
His remains were broug-ht to Athol and buried 
from the Church of the Evangelical Societ}^, 
Jan. 11, 1865. Mr. Beaman left in Athol a wife 
and one child. At his request he had been 
transferred to the 32d Eeg. before his capture. 

WiUiam Beard, 30. Reg. (See page 129), 
went with his Reg. under Maj. Gen. Butler to Lou- 
isiana and participated in the movements that re- 
sulted in the capture of New Orleans. At a later 
period he was with the Reg. in various engage- 
ments in Louisiana, and was in service at the 
capture of Port Hudson. Early in 1864 Mr. 
Beard reenlisted and came home on a furlough. 
In July 1864 the Reg. was transferred to Virginia 
and became a part of the Army of Gen. Sheridan 
in the valley of the Shenandoah where the light- 
ing was very severe — and at a later period par- 
ticipated in the great movements that resulted 
in the defeat of Gen. Lee's army and the cap- 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 147 

ture of Richmond, Mr. Beard is in service at 
this time, Jan. 1866. 

Daniel E. Billings, 2d Reg. (See page 122), was 
among the first men that went from Athol into 
the service of the United States at the opening 
of the war, joining the Reg. at Camp Andrew, 
West Roxbury; went with the Reg. July 8, 1861 
to the Upper Potomac, was in the engagements 
at Jackson Va. and afterwards in 1862 at Front 
Royal and Winchester during the advance of 
Gen. Banks up the Valley of the Shenandoah 
and his disastrous retreat. At a later period was 
in the engagements at Cedar Mountain, Antie- 
tam and Fredericksburg as well as in many other 
less known but desperate contests in Virginia, 
and in 1863 was in the battles at Chancellorsville 
and Gettysburg. In Aug. and Sept. 1863 Mr. 
Billings was with his Reg. in New York City for 
the suppression of riots and went with it to 
Tennessee to reinforce the army of Maj. Gen. 
Rosecrans. Reenlisting Jan. 1864, he came 
home on a furlough and rejoined his Reg. at 
Tullahoma Tenn. April 1864. Mr. Billings was 
taken sick and went into a Hospital at Mur- 
freesboro' Tenn. where he remained after recov- 
ery, first, as cook, and then as Commissary. 
Meanwhile his Reg. under Gen. Sherman had 
penetrated Georgia and crossed the Carolinas, 
and he rejoined it in Alexandria Va. After the 



148 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

Great Review at Washington, viz July 14, 1865 
Mr. Billinsi;s was mustered out of tlie service and 
came home in good health, having served four 
years and two months. 

J. B. Billings, 2d Reg. (See page 12), brother 
of the above, enlistinu; at the same time and <j;oino; 
with his Reg. to Maryland and Virginia. But 
before the 2d Reg. participated in any noted 
engagements with the enemy, Mr Billings was 
taken sick, and being declared to be unfit for 
service he was discharged Feb. 17. 1862 and re- 
turned home feeble. His disease was Hernia ; 
and from this he has gradually recovered, but 
has never been able to return to the service. 

Harry R. Blackmer, 27. Reg. (See page 126), 
joined the Reg. in North Carolina with the first 
Company of recruits from Atliol in the autumn of 
1862; was in the engagements at Kinston, White- 
hall, Goldsboro', Gum Swamp, and at the famous 
siege of Washington N. C. In Oct. 1863, he 
came with his Reg. to Newport News Va. and 
served with it in Norfolk and Portsmouth, having 
been promoted Corporal Aug. 14. 1863. 

In Jan. 1864 Mr. Blackmer was attacked with 
the Small Pox, and died of this disease Jan. 28. 
at Norfolk Va. after a sickness of ten days. He 
was in the service about sixteen months, and 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 149 

during this time is said to have received 150 let- 
ters from his friends at the North all of which 
were answered. 

EH Bodet, 32. Reg. (See page 130), joined the 
Reg. in the Autumn of 1861 when it was the 
First Battalion at Fort Warren ; w^ent with the 
Reg. to Washington and to Harrison's Landing 
Va. ; participated in the marches and trials of 
Porter's Corps in the retreat down the Peninsula 
and during the Campaign in Maryland, was with 
the Reg. supporting batteries at the battle of 
Antietam, was soon taken sick of Chronic Diar- 
rhoea and removed to the Hospital at the Patent 
Office Washington, where he was found very low 
by Dr. J. P. Lynde of Athol who went to his re- 
lief; his discharge was obtained Jan. 22. 1863, 
and he was removed to New York on his way 
home where he died Jan. 26. 1863. Mr. Bodet's 
remains were brought on to Athol and buried 
from the church of the Evangelical Society, Jan. 
29. 1863. He left in Athol a wife and two 
children. 

Otis B. Boutwell, 53. Reg. (See page 131), went 
with his Reg. to Louisiana and Jan. 5. 1863 was 
detailed as 2d Bugler of the Regiment. Feb. 
10. he was carried to the Marine Hospital N. Or- 
leans sick with Rheumatic Fever, but recovering 



150 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

returned to his Company and to the ranks March 
20. the vacancy occasioned by his sickness having 
been suppKed. Mr. Boutwell was with the Regi- 
ment at the capture of Fort Bisland and on its 
march to Opelousas from which place he returned 
to the Hospital at New Orleans. Rejoined the 
Company June 20. 1863 and returned home with 
it Aug. 24. in comfortable health. 

Cheney Boyd, 21. Reg. (See page 125), went 
with his Reg. into service in North Carolina ; was 
in the engagement at the capture of Roanoke 
Island and Newbern ; went with the Reg. in 
Auo;. 1862 to Virg-inia and was in the 2d Bull 
Run battle and afterwards in the eno-affement at 

o o 

So. Mountain Maryland : was taken sick and after 
being in different Hospitals in Washington and 
Philadelphia, was discharged as unfit for service 
Jan. 1863, and returned to Athol. 

Joseph Bracewell, 27. Reg. (See page 126), was 
among the recruits from Athol that joined the 
Reg. in N. Carolina in the autumn of 1862 ; was 
in the engagements at Kinston, Whitehall and 
Goldsboro' ; was at Washington N. C. during its 
siege, was in the Conflict at Gum Swamp ; went 
with his Reg. to Virginia and was taken Prisoner 
at Drury's Bluff Ya. with most of his Reg. May 
16. 1864; was taken with his unfortunate com- 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 151 

rades to Libby Prison Eiclimond, but was left 
there sick when they went on to Andersonville 
Ga. Eecovering, Mr. Bracewell was employed 
as a nurse in the prisoners' Hospital at Rich^ 
mond, till in the autumn of 1864 he was parolled 
and exchanged, but did not return to his Reg. as 
his term of service had expired. The date of 
his discharge is Nov. 30. 1864. Mr. Bracewell 
returned to Athol in good health. 

John S. Briggs, 27. Reg. (See page 126), went 
with his Reg. to Annapolis where he was sick 
with the Measles, but partially recovering went 
with his Reg. to North Carolina, was in the en- 
gagements at the capture of Roanoke Island and 
Newborn ; was detailed to assist Surgeon Otis in 
the Hospital but upon his own request returned 
to the ranks ; was again sick with the Asthma but 
recovering in part again assisted in the Hospital ; 
but his health being permanently injured he was 
discharged July 29. 1862 and returned home. 
Mr. Briggs still suffers from the disease contract- 
ed in the service. 

Francis B. Brock, 25. Reg. (See page 126), 
left Worcester with his Reg. Oct. 31. 1861 for An- 
napolis and went under Gen. Burnside to North 
Carolina ; was in the battles at Roanoke Island, 
Newbern, Kinston, Whitehall and Goldsboro' N. 



1^2 PERSONAL HISTORY. 



C. and in many other perilous expeditions in 
that State ; went with the Reg. when it was or- 
dered to Virginia and was with it in the engage- 
ments at Walthall Junction, Arrowfield Church 
and Drury's Bluff; went into the battle at Coal 
Harbor but was killed in it during the desperate 
but unavailing assault upon the enemy's works, 
June 3. 1864. His body lay upon the ground 
nearly or quite a week before it could be reached 
by our troops and buried. Mr. Brock's knap- 
sack was left behind with others in Portsmouth 
and his Diary was recovered, the entries beino- 
brought down to within about a month of his 
death. 

Henry D. Brock, 25. Reg. (See page 126), 
brother of the above, went with his Reo-. to An- 
napolis Oct. 1861 and to N. Carolina under Gen. 
Burnside ; was in the thickest of the fights at 
the capture of Roanoke Island and Newbern but 
soon after was taken sick and being declared un- 
fit for duty was discharged, and returned home 
feeble, but gradually regained his health and 
strength. 

John S. Brown, 57. Reg. (See page 134), first 
entered the service a member of Company I. 
25th Reg. from Orange and went with that Reo-. 
to North Carolina; in the battle at the capture 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 153 

of Roanoke Island was very severely wounded 
in the head, a part of the scalp being raised from 
the bone which was replaced ; but being unfit 
for duty he was discharged and returned home. 
Reentering the service in the 57- Reg. he went 
into camp with it at Worcester but his health 
not being good, he was discharged Oct. 15. 1864 
before the Reg. left for the seat of war and re-^ 
turned home. 

Walter R. Brown 34. Reg. (See page 130), went 
with his Reg. to Washington in Aug. 1862 and 
was with it in the numerous eno-ao-ements in the 
Shenandoah valley, particularly at Charlestown 
Va. and in its vicinity in 1863 and in 1864 par- 
ticipated in the great battles at New Market, 
Piedmont, Lynchburg and Snicker's Gap. In 
the last mentioned engagement, Mr. Brown was 
taken prisoner and was confined at Danville Va. 
seven months, suffering greatly for want of food 
and from sickness. At length, he was parolled 
for exchange and reached Annapolis in Feb. 
1865 very feeble, from which place he was sent 
to Worcester and was discharged from the Hos- 
pital there June 1. 1865, sixteen days before his 
term of service would have expired. Mr. Brown 
was residing in Spencer at the time of his enlist- 
ment and counted upon the quota for that Town, 
but belongs and now resides in Athol. 



154 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

Daniel D. Bruce, 16. Reg. (See page 124), 
was among the number drafted from Athol 
July 1863 and was accepted and reported for 
service. Mr. Bruce joined his Reg, in Virginia 
and was in the service Twenty Two months. 
He was in the eno;ao;ements at Mine Run, the 
Wilderness, Spottsylvania and Coal Harbor and 
also in the attack on the Weldon Rail Road. Late 
in the year 1864 Mr. Bruce was taken sick with 
Rheumatism and was in the City Point field 
Hospital, in one of the Hospitals at Annapolis 
and in the Chestnut Hill Hospital at Philadel- 
phia till May 29. 1865 when he was discharged 
and returned home, feeble but gradually im- 
proving. 

Thomas Burns, 53. Reg. (See page 131), went 
with his Reg. to Louisiana and j^'^^^'ticipated 
in all its marches and eno-agements ; was at the 
capture of Fort B island and in the assaults upon 
Port Hudson. Mr. Burns was one of the few of 
his company whose health remained good 
throughout the entire campaign of the 53. 
Reg. and he returned with it to Athol, Aug. 24. 
1863. 

George Carter, 21. Reg. (See page 125) went 
witli his Reg. to Annapolis and early in 1862 
to North Carolina under Gen. Burnside ; was 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 155 

in the battles which resulted in the capture of 
Eoanoke Island and of Newbern ; was wound- 
ed in the leg in the last mentioned engagement; 
came home on a furlough and partially recov- 
ering returned to his Regiment, but being as 
it was supposed, permanently lame he was dis- 
charged Dec. 7. 1862. Mr. Carter has now 
(Jan. 1866) in a great measure, recovered from 
the effects of his wound. 

Daniel Casavant, 53. Reg. (See page 132), 
went with his Reg. to Louisiana, participated in 
the capture of Fort Bisland and in the weary 
marches to Opelousas and Alexandria and from 
the latter place to Bayou Sara where he was 
left sick ; was removed to Baton Rouge where 
he remained dangerously sick in the Hospital, 
till the Reg. left for the North. His brother 
Joseph Casavant of Athol went to Baton Rouge, 
hoping to obtain his discharge and bring him 
home, but was himself taken dangerously sick 
at New Orleans and finally reached home a few 
days before his brother returned with his Reg. 
Daniel Casavant rejoined the Reg. Aug. 11. 
1863 and returned home with it, very sick, suf- 
fering greatly throughout the long journey ; but 
after a few weeks began to recover and at 
length was restored to perfect health. 



^^^ PERSONAL HISTORY. 

^ John M. Casavant, 32. Reg. (See page 130), 
joined this Reg. when it was the First Battahon 
at Fort Warren and remained with it till the 
spring of 18G2, when receiving a furlough to 
come home, he disappeared, and never returned 
to his Regiment. 

Adin W. Caswell, 27. Reg. (See page 126), 
was commissioned Captain of Comp. B which he 
had recruited in Athol and vicinity in the au- 
tumn of 1861 and was at the head of it during 
the three years of his service. He went with 
his Reg. to North Carolina and remained with 
It without any furlough till the time of his dis- 
charge, leading his company in nearly every 
engagement, and never asking a man to go 
where he was not ready to lead. He was sick at 
the capture of Roanoke Island, but was at the 
head of his company at Newbern, Kinston, 
Whitehall, Goldsboro' and in the famous defence 
of Washington N. C. At Gum Swamp he com- 
manded three Companies that were sent to pre- 
vent an attack in the rear, and succeeded in 
capturing the baggage train of the enemy and 
some prisoners. He was at the head of his 
Company during the campaign in Virginia but 
was sick (having been poisoned) at the time of 
the disastrous conflict at Drury's Bluff He was 
engaged at Coal Harbor where he was struck 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 157 

by a piece of a shell between his shoulders and 
prostrated but not dangerously wounded. After 
the death of Major Walker at Coal Harbor, who 
commanded the Reg. after the capture of his 
superior officers, Capt. Caswell was in command 
of the Reg. for about ten weeks, and for a 
shorter time at a later period. He came out 
of the fight at Coal Harbor with his overcoat 
pierced by bullets in many places but not se- 
verely wounded. He had previously received 
a slight wound at Port Walthall. At the close 
of his term of service Capt. Caswell returned 
home in health. 

Lyman A. Chamberlain, 27. Reg. (See page 
126), went with the Reg. to Annapolis and was 
sick there with the Measles but recovered suffi- 
ciently to go to North Carolina and to partici- 
pate in the capture of Roanoke Island. This 
was the anly engagement in which Mr. Cham- 
berlain took part as he was sick at the capture 
of Newbern and not long after went into the 
Hospital at Beaufort N. Carolina. Recovering 
he remained in the Hospital as nurse and iit a 
later period was Ward Master in the same, till 
the term of his enlistment having expired he 
was discharged and came home in good health. 

Warren E. Chamberlain, 36. Reg. (See page 



158 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

131), went with the Reg, in Sept. 1862 to Wash- 
ington and from that city into service in Mary- 
land and Virginia; was with his Eeg. which was 
held in reserve at the battle of Fredericksburg 
and went with it to Cincinnati and Lexins-ton 
Kentucky; afterwards went to Mississippi and 
was with the Res;, at Jackson and in the rear of 
Vicksburg at the time of its capture ; returned 
to Kentucky and had a furlough Sept. 24. 1863 
and not returning, was reported by the authori- 
ties of the Commonwealth to the Selectmen of 
Athol as a deserter. 

Ephraim F. Chase, 53. Reg. (See page 132), 
went with his Reg. to Louisiana in Jan. 1863 
and after participating in the capture of Fort 
Bisland and in the marches to Opelousas and 
Alexandria was sent back sick from the last 
mentioned place to Brashear City where he was 
taken prisoner by the enemy June 23. 1863 ; 
was carried to Ship Island for exchange July 9. 
rejoined his Company Aug. 11. and returned 
with it to Athol Aug. 24. 1863. 

Frederic A. Chubb, 32. Reg. (See page 130), 
joined this Reg. when it was the First Battalion 
in Fort Warren and went with it to Washington 
and Harrison's Landing Va. ; was taken sick 
and sent to the Hospital ; came home on a fur- 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 159 

lough and partially recovering went to a Hos- 
pital in New York, but not being deemed able 
to I'eturn to his Reg. was discharged Feb. 10. 
1863 and came home. 

John S. Clark, of the Navy. (See page 135). 
Mr. Clark was formerly a Captain in the Mer- 
chant Service but when the Rebellion broke 
out was a farmer in Athol Sept. 20. 1862 he 
was examined and approved as Acting Ensign 
in the Navy, and sent on board the Macedonia 
for instruction. In Nov. of the same year he 
was detached from this ship and §ent to the 
West Gulf Squadron commanded by Admiral 
Farragut, and Jan. 1. 1863 he was on duty on 
board the Sloop of War Preble at Pensacola. 
April 27. this ship took fire and blew up and 
Mr. Clark lost all his outfit and valuable nautical 
instruments. He was then assigned to the Fri- 
gate Potomac at Pensacola, and at a later period 
to the U. S. Steamer Calhoun, and was in the 
naval assault upon Fort Powell, Mobile, in Feb. 
1864, when the Sawyers' Shells were used most 
effectively. Mr. Clark was at that time execu- 
tive officer of the Calhoun which was the Flaor 
Ship, having been promoted for good conduct, 
and he was soon sent in command of the Cal- 
houn to New Orleans, for repairs. But this ship 
having been sold, he was given command of the 



160 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

U. S. Steamer Pampero, Guard Ship at the South 
West Pass, and was in this service two months, 
when he went on board the Sloop of War Ports- 
mouth, Guard Ship of New Orleans. Desiring 
more active service Mr. Clark was next placed 
in command of the Yacht Schooner Corypheus 
to cruise in Lake Pontchartrain when the Yellow 
Fever broke out among the crew and most of 
them were sent to the Hospital. Mr. Clark was 
next engaged in a successful effort to raise the 
sunken Steamer Narcissus in Mobile Harbor and 
picking up torpedoes under the guns of the 
enemy. In this last mentioned employment he 
was • engaged for nine days. Soon after the sur- 
render of Mobile Mr. Clark had a furlouo-h to 
come home, and received an honorable discharge 
from the service in Nov. 1865. He had been 
more than three years in constant and hard ser- 
vice and had been on board ten vessels of the 
Navy four of which he had had the honor to 
command. Ten days he was engaged in the 
bombardment of Fort Powell and in many other 
perilous enterprises, and it is not surprising that 
he came out of the service feeble. At this time 
(Jan. 1866) he is especially suilering from im- 
paired eyesight. 

John Clark, 27. Reg. (See page 126), went 
with his Reg. to North Carolina and was in the 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 161 

engagements at Roanoke Island, Newbern, Kins- 
ton, Whitehall and Goldsboro' ; was in service at 
the siege of Washington N. C. and after partici- 
pating in the engagement at Gum Swamp went 
with his Regiment to Ya. and was detailed to 
guard prisoners at Norfolk Ya. during the en- 
gagements at Drury's Bluff and Coal Harbor. 
During the first years of the war, Mr. Clark 
counted upon the quota of Phillipston but re-en- 
listed Jan. 1864 from Athol, and in the desper- 
ate fight in which the 27th Reg. was engaged 
March 18. 1865 near Kinston N. Carolina he was 
severely wounded in the right cheek, left arm 
and side and taken prisoner with nearly all his 
comrades ; was carried to Richmond, paroled for 
exchange and reached Annapolis March 27. As 
soon as he was able he came home and has been 
for nine months gradually recovering. Mr. 
Clark was discharged June 20. 1865, having 
served in our army nearly four years, and in 
the army of Great Britain five years before 
coming to the United States. 

George H. Clark, 32. Reg. (See page 130) joined 
the 1st Battalion at Fort Warren early in the 
year 1862 and went with it as the 32d Reg. to 
Harrison's Landing Ya. was in the campaign in 
Maryland, in the battle at Antietam and after- 
wards in the severe conflicts at Fredericksburrr, 



162 PEESONAL HISTORY. 

and Chancellorsville ; came to Pennsylvania 
when that State was invaded by Lee's army in 
1863 and was in the thickest of the fight at 
Gettysburg, returned with his Reg. to Virginia 
and was in the battles in the Wilderness, at Lau- 
rel Hill, at Tolopotamy Creek and in front of 
Petersburg till late in the year 1864 when he 
was taken sick of Chronic Diarrhoea ; and hav- 
ing been removed to the U. S. General Hospital 
Amory Square, Washington, he died there Dec. 
15. 1861. Mr, Clark was buried in Washington. 
The 32. Reg. was in twenty one battles during 
the year before he was taken sick and he is sup- 
posed to have been in all of them. 

William L. Clutterbuck, 2. Reg. (See page 122), 
was among the first that volunteered and went 
into the service from Athol ; went with his Reg. 
in July 1861 from Camp Andrew West Roxbury 
to Maryland and from thence to Virginia, but 
while at Martinsburg, losing one of his thumbs 
by an accidental discharge of his musket as he 
declared, he was discharged Sept. 1861 from the 
service and returned home. 

Edward P. Clapp, 53. Reg. (See page 132), 
went with his Reg. to Louisiana, and was detailed 
Fifer for Company E ; was with the Reg. at the 
capture of Fort Bisland and during the marches 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 163 

to Oj^elousas and Alexandria and in all the attacks 
that resulted in the capture of Port Hudson. 
Mr. Clapp enjoyed good health during the whole 
campaign and returned with his Company to 
Athol Aug. 24. 1863. 

Welcome J. Cleaveland, 53. Eeg. (See page 132), 
went with his Reg. to Louisiana but before Gen- 
Banks moved his forces against the enemy was 
taken sick with the measles ; was three months 
in the Hospital, but deemed himself able to go 
with his Reg. and to engage in the first day's 
fight near Brashear City ; but the effort proved 
too much for him as he was immediately taken 
worse and died at Brashear City April 24. 1863. 
Mr. Cleaveland's remains were removed to New 
Orleans for burial, and funeral services were at- 
tended in Athol May 17. in the church of the 
Evangelical Society. 

Cyrus W. Conant, 53. Reg. (See page 132), 
went with his Reg. in Jan. 1863 to Louisiana 
and when the forces moved against the enemy 
he accomj)anied them in the first engagements, 
but being taken sick at Vermillionville La. he was 
sent to Brashear City April 19, and at a later pe- 
riod was carried to the United States Barracks 
Hospital New Orleans where he died July 10. 
1863. His disease was Chronic Diarrhoea. It 



164 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

was impracticable to bring the remains of Mr. 
Conant home for burial, but friendship has in- 
scribed his name upon a beautiful Granite Shaft 
in the Cemetery at Athol. 

Artemas W. Conant, 53. Reg. (See page 132), 
brother of the above, went Avith his Reg. in the 
Banks Expedition to Louisiana and was with his 
Company in the engagements near Brashear 
City and in the long marches to Opelousas and 
Alexandria and back to the Mississippi River, 
also in the assaults upon Port Hudson. The 
health of Mr. Conant was good during the whole 
Campaign so that he was constantly in service, 
and returned with his Company to Athol Aug. 
24. 1863. 

James Connell, 32. Reg. (See page 130), joined 
the Reg. when it was the First Battalion at Fort 
Warren, and went with it to Washington and to 
Harrison's Landing Va. ; was taken sick at the 
latter place and removed with the sick to Phila- 
delphia ; was in a Hospital there some months 
but partially recovering was sent to Alexandria 
Va. where as soon as he was able to labor he was 
employed in building barracks. After he had 
wholly recovered he rejoined his Reg. and was 
with it in service during the latter part of the 
year 1863. In Jan. 1864 he reenlisted and 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 165 

came home on a furlough of thirty days. Re- 
tnrnino^ to his Reo;. with the reenlisted men in 
Feb. he remained with his Company at Liberty 
Va. till the last of April 1864, when the grand 
movement under Gen. Grant commenced. Mr. 
Connell was in the great battle of the Wilder- 
ness May 5. and in the battle of Laurel Hill 
May 12. and was instantly killed not far from 
Spottsylvania Court House. Mr. Connell was 
shot in the morning and his remains lay upon 
the breast works till evening when they were 
recovered and buried by his comrade Ebenezer 
Kneeland and others. 

Joseph H. CoUins, 21. Eeg. (See page 125), 
went with the Reg. to Annapolis and to North 
Carolina, was in the engagements at Roanoke 
Island, Newbern, Camden and in the forced march 
to Pollocksville to rescue the 2d Maryland Reg. ; 
went w^ith his Reg. to Virginia in July 1862, was 
in the Bull Run battle No. 2. when Gen. Pope's 
campaign in Virginia ended ; was in the battles 
at Chantilly and Antietam and finally in the 
great contest at Fredericksburg Dec. 12. 1862. 
Mr. Collins had been Color-Corporal but was, in 
the last mentioned engagement, Color Sergeant, 
and when about sixty rods from the City Fred- 
ericksburg, he was severely wounded in the leg 
below the knee and fell. It was then that Ser- 



166 PERSONAL HISTOEY. 

geant Plunkett of Company E seized the colors 
and was bearino; them forward when a shell from 
the rebel earth works carried away both of his 
arms. Mr. Collins was removed among the 
wounded to one of the Hospitals at Washington 
where he died of his wound Jan. 3. 1863. His 
remains were brought North by his Widow and 
buried at Southboro' Mass. Jan. 12. 1863. 

Marshall Collins, 53. Eeg. (See page 132), went 
with the Company under Capt. Fay to Louisiana 
in Jan. 1863 and was with his Reg. in the cap- 
ture of Fort Bisland and in the long marches to 
Opelousas and Alexandria and back to the Mis- 
sissippi River : was sent sick with Chronic Diar- 
rhoea from before Port Hudson, June 6. 1863 to 
Baton Rouge where he died in a little more than 
a month, viz. July 14. 1863. Mr. Collins was 
buried at Baton Rouge, and left in Athol a wife 
and two children. 

Vernon S. Cook, 11. Reg. (See page 123), en- 
tered the service June 13. 1861 and was in the 
battles at Yorktown, Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, 
Savage's Station, Glendale, Malvern Hill and 
others w^hen Gen. McClellan moved upon Rich- 
mond. Afterwards he participated in the en- 
gagements at Bull Run No. 2. Chantilly, Freder- 
icksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Manassas, 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 167 

Rappahannock, Locust Grove and Mine Run. 
Having reenlisted he was, in 1864, in the engage- 
ments before Petersburg, on the South Side Rail 
Road and at the time of the Weldon Rail Road 
Raid as well as at Hatcher's Run. Soon after 
the last mentioned engagement Mr. Cook was 
taken sick and sent to a Hospital at Washington, 
when being deemed unfit for longer service he 
was discharged June 9. 1865. He returned 
home and regained his health. 

Linus Crawford, 27. Reg. (See page 126), went 
with his Reg. to Annajoolis and North Carolina ; 
was in the battles at Roanoke Island, Newbern, 
Kinston, Whitehall and Goldsboro', but in Nov. 
1862 his health failed, and not regaining it he was 
discharged, because of disability, June 22. 1863 
and returned to Athol. Mr. Crawford was Cook 
for his Company a part of the time of his ser- 
vice. 

Joel B. Cummings, 21. Reg. (see page 125), 
went with his Reg. to Annapolis and in the 
Burnside Expedition to North Carolina; was in 
the battles at Roanoke Island and at Newbern, 
in the latter of which he was severely wounded 
in the shoulder, the ball penetrating so deep that 
it was impossible to extract it. Being, of course, 
unfit for service, Mr. Cummings returned to 



168 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

Athol with Laban Morse Esqr. in April 1862. 
During the summer following, his health im- 
proved, but it was not deemed best that he 
should return to his Resr. and he was discharo-ed 
Nov. 10. 1862. Since his discharge Mr. Cum- 
mings has nearly regained his health, though the 
ball which is still in the vicinity of his lungs is, 
at times, quite troublesome. 

Frederic Cummings, 2. Reg. (See page 122), 
w\as amono; the first who went into the service 
from Athol joining his Regiment at West Rox- 
bury in May 1861. Went with his Reg. to Ma- 
ryland and into the bloody engagements in the 
Shenandoah Valley, but after a service of about 
sixteen months he was taken sick and was dis- 
charged at Sharpsburg Maryland. This was 
soon after the battle at Antietam. Mr. Cum- 
mings recovered after his return. 

Henry N. Darling, 27. Reg. (See page 127), 
was among the recruits that joined this Reg. in 
North Carolina in the autumn of 1862 and was 
with it in the engagements at Kinston, White- 
hall and Goldsboro' as also in the famous defeat 
of the enemy in the siege of Washington N. C. 
and May 1863 was detailed to serve in the En- 
gineer Corps in which he remained till his term 
of service expired, first in North Carolina and at 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 169 

a later period in Virginia. Mr. Darling is at 
this time, Jan. 1866, in Texas with the arm}^, 
but not in a military capacity. 

Azor S. Davis, 25. Reg. (See page 126), enlisted ' 
as a Musician Aug. 1862 and was assigned to the 
25. Reg. but was detailed to perform duty at 
Camp Day Cambridge till Jan. 24. 1863 when he 
Avent to Fort Independence Boston Harbor for a 
short time. Being then sent to Newbern N. C. 
he joined his Reg. in Feb. 1863 and remained at 
Newbern till Oct. of the same year when he went 
to Newport News Va. meanwhile going on vari- 
ous expeditions in North Carolina and Virginia. 
In the Spring of 1864 Mr. Davis with his Reg. 
joined the Army of the James, went to Bermuda 
Hundred and afterwards moved towards Peters- 
burg, was in the engagements at Walthall Junc- 
tioTi, Drury's Bluff and Coal Harbor and finally 
in the siege of Petersburg. In Sept. 1864 he 
went back to Newbern, came home to be dis- 
charged and was mustered out of the service at 
the expiration of his term of enlistment Oct. 20. 
1864. Mr. Davis was sick but little while in the 
army and returned home in good health. 

Otis E. Davis, 34. Reg. (See page 136), joined 
the Reg. when it was organized and went with it 
to Maryland and Virginia and was with it in va- 

15 



170 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

rious services before it was in any decisive en- 
gagement with the enemy ; was in the battle of 
Berryville Oct 1863 under Gen. Sigel ; of Pied- 
mont June 1864 under Gen. Hunter ; near 
Lynchburg in the same month, at Snicker's Gap, 
July 1864 ; at Winchester Sept. 1864 under 
Gen. Sheridan and under the same at Fisher's 
Hill two days later ; was wounded by a shell 
near Cedar Creek Va. and taken prisoner Oct. 
13. 1864 ; reached Libby Prison Richmond Oct. 
27. ; was taken sick with the Typhoid Fever and 
removed to the Prison Hospital Nov. 9. ; was 
very sick, but after six weeks began to gain, 
till finally his health was in a good degree re- 
stored. But though nearly well he was per- 
mitted to remain in the Hospital till he was pa- 
roled for exchange, Feb. 5. 1865. Mr. Davis 
reached Annapolis Feb. 7. and came home on a 
furlough Feb. 20., having been treated on the 
whole more kindly than most of the prisoners. 
He returned to Annapolis but was in no other 
engagements, and was discharged with his Reg. 
June 16, 1865. 

Patrick Dempsey, 9. Reg. (See page 123), 
was the only man from Athol that served three 
full years with this renowned Reg. ; went with 
it to the seat of war and was with it in the fol- 
lowing engagements as appears from the indorse- 



PEESONAL HISTOEY. 171 

ment upon his discharge papers, Yorktown, 
Siege of Yorktown, Hanover Court House, Me- 
chanicsville. Gains' Mill, Malvern, Chickahoininy, 
Hanover Landing, Bull Run No. 2, Botelers' 
Mills, Antietara, Shepardstown, Fredericksburg, 
Chancellorsville, Brandy Station, Gettysburg, 
Wapping Heights, Rappahannock Station, Bristol 
Station, Mine Run, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, 
North Anna, Cedar Grove and Shady Oak Grove ; 
twenty five battles in all, to say nothing of many 
other engagements less decisive. Mr. Dempsey 
was discharged June 21st 1864 by reason of the 
expiration of his term of service, and returned 
home in health, and as it appears, with an hon- 
orable record. 

Anthony V. Dimock, 53. Reg. (See page 132), 
went with his Company under Capt. Fay to Lou- 
isiana ; was sick with a Fever at Algiers La. and 
left sick there when Gen. Banks moved his 
forces against the enemy; was a part of the 
time in a Hospital at New Orleans, but was not 
able to be in any of the engagements of his 
Reg.; rejoined it Aug. 11. 1863 and returned 
with it Aug. 24.- with his health improved. 

George S. Dresser, 27. Reg. (See page 127), 
joined the Reg. with the second Company of re- 
cruits from Athol in the autumn of 1863 ; took 



172 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

part in the expedition to Suffolk Va. in April 
1864, and was doubtless in the engagements at 
Port Walthall and Arrowfield Church. Mr. Dresser 
was taken prisoner with most of his comrades in 
the disastrous conflict at Drury's Bluff May 16. 
1864, was removed to Libby Prison Richmond 
and thence to Danville where he was taken sick 
of Lung Fever. He was afterwards carried to 
Andersonville Ga. where he was left very sick 
when his comrades were removed to other 
prisons, and doubtless died there in the summer 
or autumn of 1864, a victim of rebel cruelty. 

George W. Drury Jr., 53. Reg. (See page 132), 
went with his Reg. to Louisiana ; was taken sick 
while the Reg. was at Camp Kearney Carrol ton 
and was left there when it moved ; was not 
present in the first engagements with the enemy, 
but was able to rejoin his Company at Alexandria 
to march with it upon Port Hudson, and to take 
part in the reduction of that place. Mr. Drury 
returned in comfortable health with his Reg. 
Auff. 24. 1863. 



'O* 



Simeon S. Drury, 53. Reg. (See page 132), 
brother of the above ; went 'with his Reg. to 
Louisiana and participated in all its engagements 
and marches from the beo-innino; to the end of 
the Campaign, and returned with his Reg. in 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 173 

good health, Aug. 24. 1863. At a later period, 
viz. in the Spring of 1865, Mr. Drury returned 
to the United States Service under a Contract for 
six months which he spent in the vicinity of 
Chattanooga Tennessee, serving as Master's 
Mate on board a number of United States Boats 
in the Tennessee River, and came home in health 
at the expiration of his engagement. 

John Doyle, 36. Reg. (See page 131), went 
with his Reg. to Virginia and was with it 
when it was sent to Kentucky and at a later pe- 
riod to Mississippi ; was in the engagements at 
Jackson Miss, and in all the work and suffering 
in the rear of Yicksburg during the siege and 
capture of that place ; returned with his Reg. to 
Kentucky and was in the engagements that 
saved Knoxville Tenn. from the Rebels ; was 
with the Reg. when it returned to Virginia and 
became a part of the army of Gen. Grant when 
he moved towards Richmond ; was in the battles 
of the Wilderness and at Spottsylvania and be- 
fore Petersburg where he was taken prisoner 
Sept. 30. 1864 having been severely wounded in 
the hand by a ball passing through it. Mr. 
Doyle was carried first to Richmond where he 
was robbed of two months pay, clothing &c. and 
thence was sent to the Prison at Salisbury N. 
Carolina, where he suffered greatly through lack 



174 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

of food and clothing. After five months and ten 
days he was paroled for exchange and sent to 
Annapolis, very feeble. From Annapolis he 
came home on a furlough, but being crippled by 
his wound which has caused him to lose the use 
of one finger, and worn out by the rigors of his 
imprisonment he was not sent back to his Reg., 
but was discharged June 22. 1865. 

Theodore Jones Dyer, 25. Reg. (See page 126), 
went with his Reg. to North Carolina and as- 
sisted in the captures of Roanoke Island and 
Newbern, was. in the engagements at Kinston, 
Whitehall and Goldsboro' and in all the expedi- 
tions of his Regiment in North Carolina, went 
with his Reg. to Virginia and was doubtless in 
the engagements at Arrowfield Church, Drury's 
Bluff and Coal Harbor, but during the protracted 
siege of Petersburg he was taken sick and died 
near that city Sept. 19. 1864. We have but few 
of the particulars respecting Mr. Dyer's last 
year of service or of his death. 

John D. Emerson, 2. Reg. (See page 122), was 
in the Company of the young men that went 
into the service of the Government under the 
first call for troops ; was sick during a part of 
the early campaign of his Reg. in Maryland and 
Virginia, but recovering, was detached from his 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 175 

Reg. and ordered to Darnstown Md. to await or- 
ders from the chief of the Signal Corps ; after 
five weeks was sent to Georgetown D. C. and 
entered the School for Signal Instruction in that 
City ; went South with the Expedition of Gen. 
W. T. Sherman when the Forts of Port Royal 
S. C. were captured, was on board the Steamer 
Oriental with Gen. Viale and Staff during the 
assault; landed at Port Royal and did Signal 
duty there and in that vicinity a few weeks and 
was then located at Beaufort S. C. ; in 1863 was 
under Gen. Gillmore on Morris Island and a part 
of the time had charge of a Telegraph leading 
from a bomb proof within three hundred yards 
of Fort Wagner ; was on duty in the bomb- 
proof when a shell from the Fort penetrated it 
and exploded ; was almost buried in the sand and 
was taken out, senseless and as it was thought 
mortally wounded, was carried to Beaufort and 
was restored to reason and speech in eight days 
and to a good measure of health in a few weeks ; 
returned to duty on Morris Island and was on 
board the Ironsides when the fleet attacked Fort 
Sumter; went in 1864 under Gen. Seymour to 
Florida and remained there till Gen. Gillmore 
was ordered to reinforce Gen. Butler in Virginia 
when he joined the Army of the James and was 
with it doing Signal duty in some of its severest 
conflicts, till the time for which he had enlisted, 



176 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

expired when he was discharged and came home. 
After a few months, Mr. Emerson reentered the 
service in the 2d New York Heavy Artillery in 
which he remained till the end of the war or 8^ 
months. His Reg. belonged to the Army of the 
Potomac and was in the terrible fighting which 
resulted in the fall of Richmond and the sur- 
render of Gen. Lee's army. Soon after joining 
this Reg. Mr. Emerson was detailed as Chief 
Clerk in the Adjutant's office and served in this 
capacity, having received a 2d Lieutenant's Com- 
mission from the Governor of New York and 
when his Reg. was mustered out of service he 
returned home in health. 

Farwell F. Fay, 53. Reg. (See page 131), 
recruited in Aug. 1862 Company E of the 68. 
Reg. in Athol and vicinity ; was chosen Captain 
of said Company Sept. 13. 1862 and Commis- 
sioned by the Governor of the Commonwealth 
five days later; went into Camp with his Com- 
pany at Groton Junction Oct. 1. and to New 
York Nov. 30. ; sailed for Louisiana Jan. 1863 
and went into Camp at Carrollton ; was at the 
head of his Company at the capture of Fort 
Bisland and during all the marches to Opelousas 
and Alexandria and to the rear of Port Hudson ; 
led his Company in the assault upon Port Hud- 
son of June 14. which failed through no flxult of 



PEESONAL HISTORT. 177 

the 63d Regiment or of any of its Officers ; two 
days later, viz. June 16. was appointed Acting 
Major of the Reg. and two days later still was 
placed in Command of the same, in which capa- 
city he acted till after the surrender of Port Hud- 
son, viz. till July 12. at which time he was taken 
sick and removed to the Officers Hospital at Baton 
Rouge. He was sick at Baton Rouge fifteen 
days when he entered St. Louis Hospital New 
Orleans where he remained till orders came to 
collect the sick and prepare to leave for the 
North. Capt. Fay rejoined the Reg. Aug. 10. 
1863 and returned to Massachusetts at the head 
of his Company Aug. 24. of the same year, with 
health somewhat impaired but gradually improv- 
ing. 

In July 1864, Capt. Fay was commissioned 
as Assistant Adjutant General of Massachusetts, 
to recruit for the Commonwealth in the Depart- 
ment of Mississippi and by Special Orders No. 
12. bearing date July 23. 1864 was assigned 
to the Staff of Lieut. Col. Eli C. Kinsley and di- 
rected to proceed with him to Vicksburg Miss. 
Capt. Fay entered upon this difficult service and 
was eminently successful ; but in Nov. 1864 he 
tendered his resignation on account of sickness 
in his family ; and this being accepted he was 
honorably discharged Dec. 8. 1864. 



178 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

William G. Fay, 53. Reg. (See page 132), 
went with his Reg. to New York was detailed 
for duty on board the Ship " Belle Wood " Jan. 
8. 1863, joined -his Reg. again in Feb. and was 
with it in all its engagements and marches till 
after the surrender of Port Hudson when he was 
left sick at the Convalescent Camp at Baton 
Rouge. Mr. Fay left for home on board the St. 
Mary's Aug. 7. reached New York Aug. 14. and 
Athol Aug. 19. 1863, feeble but gradually im- 
proving. 

Freeborn R. Fay, 53. Reg. (See page 132), 
brother of the above, was advised by the Surgeon 
of the Reg. at Camp Stevens to ask for a dis- 
charge because of an organic affection of the 
heart, but was so anxious to go into the service 
that he could not follow this advice ; was detailed 
at New York for service on board the Ship 
" Belle Wood " and after arriving in Louisiana 
was made the Surgeon's Orderly, went with the 
Reg. in its various engagements and marches, 
was injured by being thrown from a wagon near 
Port Hudson and went into the Hospital at Ba- 
ton Rouge; left for Massachusetts with a part of 
the sick men on board the St. Mary's Aug. 7. ar- 
rived at New York Aug. 14. and reached home, 
in feeble health, but recovering, Aug. 20. 1863. 
Mr. Fay died suddenly of organic disease of the 
heart, at Athol May 4. 1865. 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 179 

Levi B. Fay, 53. Reg. (See page 132), went 
with his Company into Camp at Groton Junc- 
tion and Was made Corporal Oct. 17. 1862; 
was with the Reg. in good health in the engage- 
ments near Brashear City, in all its marches and 
fighting before Port Hudson, and indeed in every 
kind of service required of it during its entire 
campaign in Louisiana and Mississippi, and re- 
turned with it to Massachusetts Aug. 24. 1863. 

Joseph F. Fay, 27. Reg. (See page 128), be- 
longed to the Regimental Band and accompanied 
his Reg. to North Carolina and was with it in the 
battles at Roanoke Island and Newbern, but af- 
ter serving about one year in this capacity was 
discharged by reason of the Government Order 
discontinuing Regimental Bands and returned to 
Athol 

Charles D. Fisher, 36. Reg. (See page 131), 
went with his regiment to Washington and into 
service in various movements in Maryland and 
Virginia; passed over to Parkersburg in West 
Virginia and down the Ohio to Lexington Ky. 
went with his Reg. to guard the Polls at Cincin- 
nati and thence to participate in the capture. of 
Vicksburg under Gen. Grant ; was in the enga- 
gement at Jackson Miss, and after the fall of 
Vicksburg returned to Kentucky detailed as 



180 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

nurse for the sick soldiers but was himself soon 
sick through incessant labor and ulcerations in 
his limbs; was sent to the Hospital at Camp 
Dennison Ohio where he remained nearly two 
months when he had a furlough and came home. 
Thorough examinations at a later date at Boston 
proved Mr. Fisher unfit for service in the field 
and he was discharged Nov. 19. 1863. His di- 
sease continued for many months, but he gra- 
dually improved in health, and has nearly re- 
covered. 

Leyton W. Follett, 53. Reg. (See page 132), 
went with his Reg. to Louisiana, was always fit 
for duty and always present in its marches and 
engagements, participated in the captures of 
Fort Bisland and Port Hudson, and returned to 
Athol in health Aug. 24. 1863. 

Azro B. Folsom, 53. Reg. (See page 132), 
went with his Reg. to Louisiana and was with it 
when Gen. Banks moved against the forces of 
the enemy in April 1863, was detailed for sj)ecial 
duty in the Quartermaster's Department AiDril 
27. 1863 ; rejoined the Company Aug. 9. and 
returned with it, feeble but convalescent, Aug. 
24. 1863. 

Daniel W. Foster, 36. Reg. (See page 131), 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 181 

went with his Reg. to Washington and was with 
with it in various services in Maryland and Vir- 
ginia ; was taken severely sick with an intermit- 
tent fever on board the Transport South Amer- 
ica in Chesapeake Bay ; was landed at Newport 
News and died in the Hospital there Feb. 14. 

1863 ; was buried there but his remains were dis- 
interred by his Brother W. H. Foster and brought 
to Athol. Funeral Services were held in the 
church of the 1st Cong. Society, Athol, Feb. 26. 
1863. 

Elmer G. Foster, 1st Battalion (See page 130), 
joined this Battalion before it became the 32. 
Reg. at Fort Warren in Feb. 1862 but in a few 
days was taken sick and discharged as unfit for 
service Feb. 20. 1862. Mr. Foster returned to 
Athol feeble and continued feeble till Feb. 28. 

1864 when he died; never having recovered 
from the sickness that came upon him during 
the few days he was in service at Fort Warren. 

Columbus Fox, 2d Reg. (See page 122), was 
among the first men who went into the Army 
from Athol, was with his Reg. in various engage- 
ments and services in Maryland and Virgi- 
nia, particularly in the advance and retreat of 
Gen. Banks in the Shenandoah Valley ; was in 
the battle at Gettysburg Pa. ; went with his Reg. 



182 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

to Kentucky and Tennessee and was in various 
engagements in those States, remaining with his 
Eeg. four months or more after the period of his 
enhstment had expired, because the Reg. was 
ahnost constantly in battle, in the vicinity of 
Atlanta Ga. After his discharge and return 
home in health Mr. Fox reentered the service in 
the New York 3d Cavalry for one year, but after 
serving nine months, the war closed and he was 
discharged. 

Patrick W. Fox, 21. and 57. Reg. (See page 
125), went with the 21. Reg. in the Burnside Ex- 
pedition to North Carolina and was in the bat- 
tles at Roanoke Island, Newbern and Camden 
in the last mentioned of which he was wounded 
in the arm. He was also wounded in the hand 
and partially disabled by accident. In the batr 
tie of Chantilly he was wounded in the foot but 
escaped wounds in the 2d Bull Run fight. Be- 
ino" unfit to continue in the service because of 
his wounds, he was honorably discharged Feb. 
14. 1863. Mr. Fox was made Corporal March 
16. 1862. His wounds having healed Mr Fox 
reentered the service in the 57. Reg. having 
been Sergeant of Guard at the office of Pro. 
Marshal at Greenfield. 

In the battle of the Wilderness he was 
wounded in the head, but was in the engage- 



PERSONAL history: 181^ 

ment at Spottsylvania before going into the 
Hospital at Washington. Eejoining his Reg. he 
was detailed as one of the Independent Mounted 
Scouts, having been promoted Sergeant in the 
battle of the Wilderness. As a Scout he had 
charge of thirteen men and was engaged every 
night in this service. On one occasion when 
attacked by Mosby, he lost four of his men. 
But the service proving too hard for him, he 
was taken sick and was two months again in the 
Hospital. Partially recovering, he was trans- 
ferred April 5. 1865 to the Veteran Eeserve 
Corjis and was honorably discharged Aug. 24. 
1865. Mr. Fox received four wounds in all, one 
of which made him lame in the ankle joint and 
another entirely disabled two of his fingers, and 
when he at length returned home, he brought 
the most honorable testimonials to his fidelity 
and courage. 

Byron A. French, 2. and 53. Reg. (See page 
122), was among the first men who enlisted from 
Athol joining the 2. Reg. Col. Gordon at West 
Roxbury ; went with his Reg. to the Upper Po- 
tomac and while in service there received a 
wound in the hand at Darnstown Maryland 
which disabled him for the time and he was dis- 
charged Dec. 1. 1861. Recovering the use of 
his hand, he entered the 53, Reg., was made Or 



184 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

derly Sergeant of Comp. E Oct. 17. 1862; went 
with the Kegiment to Louisiana ; was in the 
fight at Fort Bisland ; was left sick at Vermil- 
lionville La. April 19. 1863: rejoined his Com- 
pany at Alexandria, was in all the engagements 
at the capture of Port Hudson and returned to 
Athol Aug. 24. 1863. Mr. French entered the 
service for the third time and was sent to the 
school for Signal instruction at Georgetown D. 
C. where he remained a number of months, and 
was with the Signal Corps at Fort Stevens near 
Washington during the summer of 1865 when 
he was mustered out of the service. 

Van Buren French, 27. Reg. (See page 127), 
went with his Reg. into service in North Caro- 
lina and was in the engagements at Roanoke 
Island and Newbern ; was wounded in the latter 
by a spent ball that struck his arm ; returned 
to Athol with Laban Morse Esq. in April 1862 
on a furlough ; but being deemed unfit for ser- 
vice he was discharged Sept. 24. 1862. Mr. 
French was made Corporal, Oct. 1861. At a 
later period he reentered the service in the 2d 
Heavy Artillery, Comp. B ; went to North Caro- 
lina, was sick in the Hospital at Newbern three 
months and finally discharged for disability. 

William A. Fry, 32. Reg. (See page 130), was 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 185 

at Fort Warren and went with the Reg. to 
Washington and to Harrison's Landing ; was 
with the Reg. in service in Maryland and re- 
turned with it to Virginia ; was taken sick near 
Centreville Va. and was sent into one of the 
Hospitals at Washington where he remained 
nearly nine months ; w^as also in a Hospital 
for a short time in New York ; recovering, re- 
turned to his Reg. in Virginia in season to parti- 
cipate in the advance under Gen. Grant in May 
1864 ; passed safely through the battles of the 
Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Tolopotomy Swamp, 
Bethesda Church, in front of Petersburg June 
18., on the Weldon Rail Road and at Preble's 
Farm, when having served three years he was 
discharo-ed Nov. 25. 1864 and returned to Athol 
in health. 

Sunnier S. Giles, 30. Reg. (See page 129), went 
South with his Reg. under Gen. Butler and took 
an active part in the various battles in the vi- 
cinity of New Orleans and before Port Hudson ; 
was wounded in the right hand in the fight at 
Donaldsonville La. and being disabled by his 
wound for four months was discharged Oct. 24. 
1863 and returned to Athol. Towards the close 
of the war Mr. Giles reentered the service in 
the 13th Reg. Vet. Reserve Corps, but was not 
sent out of New England and was finally dis- 



186 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

charged Oct. 24. 1865, having served fourteen 
months. 

Alfred Goddard, 53. Reg. (See page 132), went 
with his Res;, into service in Louisiana and was 
with it in the capture of Fort BisLand and upon 
all the marches till the forces of Gen, Banks 
reached Opelousas where he was taken sick and 
sent back to Brashear City May 5. 1863. At 
Brashear City Mr. Goddard was taken prisoner 
June 23. ; sixteen days later was sent to Ship 
Island for exchange ; returned to New Orleans 
Aug. 5. : rejoined his Company Aug. 11. and re- 
turned home with it in comfortable health Aug. 
24. 1863. 

Charles Virgil Goddard, 53. Reg. (See page 
132), went with his Reg. to Louisiana and was 
wounded in the thigh during the first engage- 
ment, viz. at the capture of Fort Bisland ; re- 
luctantly went to the rear and was sent into the 
Hospital where he remained till July, 4. 1863 
when he rejoined his Company and returned 
with it to Massachusetts, among the sick, but 
gradually gained till his health was perfectly 
restored. 

Jacob Orlando Gould, 53. Reg. (See page 132), 
went into service in Louisiana and was with his 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 187 

Eeg. in the fight at Fort Bisland and in the long 
and tedious marches to Opelousas and Alexan- 
dria, was left sick at Bayou Sara May 23. 1873 ; 
was removed to the United States General Hos- 
pital at Baton Eouge, where he died July 27. 
1863 of Chronic Diarrhea. Mr. Gould had been 
made Corporal May 1. 1863 in the place of Cor- 
poral George W. Knights deceased. 

Charles S. Green, 2. Reg. (See page 122), was 
in the company of young men who first enlisted 
from Athol in the spring of 1861; went into 
camp at West Roxbury and with his Reg. into 
service on the Upper Potomac ; was wagoner 
and in the engagements in Gen. Bank's advance 
and retreat in the Shenandoah Valley ; in Dec. 
1862 was taken dangerously sick of brain Fever 
and died at Frederick City Maryland Dec. 20. 
1862. His remains were sent to his friends by 
his comrades, one of whom Leander W. Phelps of 
Athol had been detailed to take care of him in 
the Hospital. 

Charles Gray,27.Reg. (See page 127), went with 
the Reg. into service in North Carolina having 
been made Serereant Oct. 1. 1861 : was eno-ao-ed 
at the capture of Roanoke Island and in the 
battles of Kinston, Whitehall and Goldsboro' ; 
served in the defence of Washington N. C. and 



188 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

t 

in the engagement at Gum Swamp ; went with 
his Regiment to Virginia and was in the fights 
at Port Walthall, Arrowfield Church and Dru- 
ry's Bluff; was taken prisoner in the last men- 
tioned engagement with a large part of his 
Regiment ; was in Libby Prison, Richmond, one 
week ; was taken thence to Andersonville Ga. ; 
from Andersonville to Savannah, from Savannah 
to Millen and from Millen back to Savannah, 
being in prison in these places nearly six 
months ; was generally well, though he suffered 
like his unfortunate comrades for food and 
water; was finally paroled for exchange Nov. 
25. 1864 and next day went on board a trans- 
port for Annapolis ; had a furlough for 30 days 
and reached Athol Dec. 17. 1864; returned to 
Annapolis Jan. 14. 1865 and served in the Engi- 
neer Corps there from Feb. 13. till May 3. ; went 
back to Newborn and rejoined his Reg. June 5. ; 
was mustered out of the service with his Reg. 
June 26. 1865. and returned in health to Athol. 
Mr. Gray reenlisted Jan. 1. 1864. 

Charles E. Hager, 21. Reg. (See page 125), 
went with his Reg. into service in North Caro- 
lina and was in the engagements at Roanoke Is- 
land, Newbern, Camden and other places in that 
State, but at a later period (supposed to be 
while the 21. Reg. was in service in Virginia,) he 



PEESONAL HISTOKY, 189 

was thrown from a liorse in Alexandria Va. and 
killed. The particular circumstances and pre- 
cise date of his death, the Committee in charge 
of this Record have not been able to learn. 

Seth F. Hale, 21. Reg. (See page 125), went 
with his Reg. into service in North Caro- 
lina and was in the engagements at Roanoke Is- 
land, Newbern and Camden in that State ; also 
at Chantilly Va. and at South Mountain and An- 
tietam Md. ; in the last mentioned battle was se- 
verely wounded in the right foot and was in va- 
rious Hospitals in Maryland under treatment till 
June 17. 1863 when he was transferred to the 
Veteran Reserve Corps and put on duty as Or- 
derly at the Provost Marshal's Office in Balti- 
more and afterwards served in the same capacity 
in Washington at Head Quarters ; in April 1864 
made application to rejoin his Reg. which then 
belonged to the Army of the Potomac, and was 
in season to participate in the Battles of the 
Wilderness and Spottsylvania ; May 12 was 
again severely wounded in the left hip, was re- 
moved to the Hare wood Hospital at Washington 
and from thence to Worcester where he was 
mustered out of service Aug. 30. 1864, the term 
of his enlistment having expired. Mr. Hale has 
recovered from the effects of the wounds he re- 
ceived. In May 1865 he received a Commission 



190 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

as 2d Lieutenant in the Militia of the Common- 
wealth. 

James A. Hand, 31. Reg. (See page 129), 
went with the Reg. as a part of Maj. Gen. But- 
ler's Expedition to Ship Island and afterwards 
participated in the capture of New Orleans and 
in the engagements under Gen. Banks in Louisi- 
ana and also in the capture of Port Hudson. 
Li 1863 Mr. Hand's health failed, and after re- 
maining in the Hospital a number of months, he 
was discharged Nov. 5. of that year and came 
home. He partially recovered but has been for 
many months very sick, his disease having been 
induced by his exposure in the service. 

George R. Hanson, 27. Reg. (See page 128), 
was one of the Band of this Reg;, that accom- 
panied it to North Carolina under Gen. Burn- 
side. Mr. Hanson was at the capture of Roan- 
oke Island and Newbern and in various expedi- 
tions in North Carolina, but the Government 
having issued an order for the discontinuance of 
Regimental Bands he was discharged Aug. 31. 
1862 and came home. At a later period he reen- 
tered the service in the 2d Heavy Artillery in 
which he remained for two years, doing garrison 
duty in N. C^arolina ; was Corporal and Sergeant 
in it ; and July 3. 1865 was commissioned First 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 191 

Lieutenant in the 14. U. S. Colored Heavy Artil- 
lery and Nov. 16. 1865 was commissioned as Cap- 
tain in the same. Mr. Hanson was discharged 
Dec. 11. 1865. 

James Harkins Jr., 31. Reg. (See page 129), 
was first in the service as a member of the 1st 
New York Mounted Riflemen, and served in 
Virginia and North Carolina. In the latter State 
he was captured and taken to Petersburg and to 
Richmond but after about five months he was 
exchanged and his time of service having ex- 
pired he was discharged. Jan. 1. 1864 he reen- 
tered tlie service joining the 31. Reg. of Mass. 
.Volunteers, but was at once transferred to the 
6th Mass. Cavalry and went with Gen. Banks on 
the Red River Expedition. In the engagement 
at Alexandria La. he very narrowly escaped 
death or capture, his horse having been repeated- 
ly shot under him. Not long after this he was 
in another desperate conflict when he was again 
taken prisoner and carried to Tjder Texas. Af- 
ter some time, an opportunity presenting itself he 
escaped and made his way back through swamps 
and thickets to Louisiana and reached Morganza 
400 miles from Taylor in 27 days arriving Aug. 
15. 1864, but he was soon taken sick with rheu- 
matic fever and after being removed to New Or- 
leans died Aug. 30. 1864. 



192 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

Edwin C. Hastings, 6. Battery (See page 137), 
went to New Orleans but had been in service 
only a short time before an Artillery Box fell 
upon his back injuring him severely. In a faint- 
ing fit he fell near the Hospital and lay upon 
the ground for some time during a storm which 
greatly aggravated his injury. After he was 
able to walk he came home on a furlough in the 
spring of 1864 and w^ent into the Hospital at 
Readville Mass. April 1865 he was transferred 
to the Dale Hospital at Worcester where he re- 
mained till he was discharged May 26. 1865. 
Mr. Hastings has been a great sufferer, and his 
injury will be a permanent one, but he is gradu- 
ally improving in health. 

William Hill, 27. Reg. (See page 127), went 
with his Reg. to North Carolina but in the 
engagement at Roanoke Island Feb. 8. 1862 he 
was mortally wounded by a ball that passed 
through him and lodged in his overcoat, and died 
two days after. Mr. Hill was buried at Roa- 
noke Island and left two sons in the service and 
two daughters in Athol. He was the first man 
from Athol who was killed in the war. 

Charles H. Hill, 2d Reg. (See page 122), son 
of the above William Hill, was among the 
first that went into the service from Athol and 



PERSONAL HISTOEY. ' 193 

was with his Eeg. in the various engagements 
under Gen. Banks in the Shenandoah "yalley. 
He was also in the battles at Antietam, Freder- 
icksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg Pa. 
In the last mentioned engagement he was 
wounded in the leg and after the ball was ex- 
tracted he was in Hospitals at York Pa. Philadel- 
phia and Portsmouth Grove R. I. Recovering 
near the close of 1863 Mr. Hill rejoined his Reg. 
and remained with it till the term of his enlist- 
ment had expired when he was discharged and 
came home, being the first man to return to 
Athol after three years service. 

Andrew J. Hill, 21. Reg. (See page 125), son 
of William Hill and brother of Charles H. 
Hill above ; went with his Reg. into service in 
North Carolina and was in the engagement at 
the capture of Roanoke Island. While standing 
in the water during that battle he took a severe 
cold which brought on a fever and he died at 
Roanoke Island March 3. 1862. Mr. Hill was 
buried there, but high water prevented his com- 
rades from laying his remains by the side of 
those of his father. 

Samuel A. Hill, 21. Reg. (See page 125), was 
made corporal and went with his Reg. to 
North Carolina, was in the engagements at Ro- 

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194 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

anoke Island and in the thickest of the strife at 
Newborn. In the battle at Camden N. C. four 
balls passed through his overcoat but he es- 
caped unhurt. In the summer of 1862 the 
health of Mr. Hill failed and after a service of 
thirteen months he was discharged and came 
home. The date of his discharge is Oct. 31. 
1862. 

James S. Hodge, 27. Reg. (See page 127), 
was Drummer and went with his Company to N. 
Carolina ; was at his post during the engage- 
ments at Roanoke Island, Newborn, Kinston, 
Whitehall, Goldsboro' Washington and Gum 
Swamp, received a furlough to visit his family 
in Athol but while passing through Springfield 
on his way home he was killed by the cars, Sept. 
20. 1863. His funeral was attended in Athol 
Sept. 22. 1863. 

Aaron H. Holt, 53. Reg. (See page 132), 
went with his Reg. to Louisiana and was with 
his Company during all its engagements and 
marches in that State and Mississippi, including 
the capture of Fort Bisland and Port Hudson, 
and returned with his Reg. to Massachusetts 
Aug. 24. 1863, in health. 

Lovell H. Horton, 27. Reg. (See page 126), 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 195 

was commissioned 2d Lieutenant of Comp. B at 
the time of its organization, went with his Reg. 
to North CaroHna but in the first engagement, 
viz. that at Roanoke Island he was injured by 
the explosion of a shell near him, though not 
wounded. Mr. Horton resigned his commission 
and was discharged Feb. 22. 1862 and returned 
home. 

Albert Horton, 11th U. S. Infantry (See page 
135), was Drummer and went into the service in 
the Summer of 1861 — and in all his early en- 
gagements acted as Orderly for the Surgeon ; 
was at his post of duty in the battles at Gains' 
Mills, Malvern Hill, White Oak Swamp, 2d Bull 
Run, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, 
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. When Mr. 
Horton had been nearly two years in the service 
he was transferred to the Regimental Band for 
good conduct and continued in it till his term of 
enlistment had expired. Nov. 16. 1864 he re- 
entered the service in the same Reg. was with 
it in its various conflicts as the war was brought 
to its close, and is still with it in Virginia, hav- 
ing served at this time four years and two 
months. 

Gardner Howe, 32. Reg. (See page 130), was 
at Fort Warren and went with his Reg. to 
Washington and Harrison's Landing Va., was 



196 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

with his Keg. .in the 2d Bull Run fight and when 
the invading rebel army was driven out of Mary- 
land ; was in the desperate battle at Fredericks- 
burg near the close of 1862 and was injured 
while helping to carry a wounded man from the 
field ; was injured still more the next day while 
carrying back the dead body of his Captain 
Dearborn who had fallen at the front ; went into 
the Hospital, but his disease (inflammation of the 
bowels) continuing, he was discharged March 7. 
18G3 and returned home very feeble. In Aug. 
1864 Mr. Howe reentered the service in the 9. 
Reg. Veteran Reserve Corps in which he did 
duty till Sept. 8. 1865, when his health failing 
again he was discharged and returned home, un- 
able to labor. His second service was credited 
to the town of Templeton. 

John W. Howe, 27. Reg. (See page 127), was 
among the recruits from Athol that joined the Reg. 
early in 1864 and was with it in its first engage- 
ments of that year in Virginia; was at Port 
Walthall, Arrowfield Church and Drury's Blufi"; 
was taken prisoner at the last mentioned place, 
and carried to Richmond thence to Danville and 
thence to Andersonville Ga., where he died of 
Chronic Diarrhoea July 24. 1864. His disease 
was doubtless the result of cruel treatment. 
Mr. Howe left a wife in Athol. The No. of Mr. 
Howe's grave is 3871. 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 197 

George H. Hoyt, 1st Kansas Cavalry (See page 
137), enlisted early in 1861 in John Brown Jr's 
Company of Sharp shooters and after becoming 
connected with the 1. Kansas Cav. w\as Commis- 
sioned 2d Lieutenant. Early in 1862 Mr Hoyt 
was made Captain in that Reg. and served as 
such under Generals Grant and Rosecrans in 
West Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi. Re- 
signing on account of sickness he returned to 
Kansas, but soon organized an independent body 
of men to protect the State against the savage 
Quantrell. After the sack of Lawrence Capt. 
Hoyt assisted to raise the 15. Kansas Cavalry 
and was made Lieut. Col, of that Regiment. 
This he led in the battles of Lexington, Little 
Blue, Independence, Big Blue, Byram's Ford, 
State Line, Westport, and Newtonia, and was a 
portion of the two years in this service in Com- 
mand of 1. Brigade 1. Div. under Gen. Curtis. 
While Provost Marshal at Humboldt Tenn. in 
1862, Capt. Hoyt issued a freedom Proclamation 
for his district which caused him to be relieved 
from holding that position, tho' his order was nev- 
er revoked. Lieut. Col. Hoyt served till the Re- 
bellion was crushed and adds at the close of a 
note to the Chairman of the Committee in charo-e 

o 

of this Record, " neither of the Regiments with 
which I have been in service nor any of my men 
ever took prisoners or surrendered themselves." 

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198 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

John Humphrey, of the Navy, (See page 135), 
joined the U. States Navy in the summer of 1861, 
went on board the receiving ship at Charles- 
town and afterwards was a marine on board 
the Cumberland when this ship was engaged in 
the capture of the Forts near Hatteras Inlet 
North Carolina Aug. 28. 1861. Mr. Humphrey 
was also on board the Cumberland, when that 
ship with others was suddenly attacked by the 
rebel Ship Merrimac near Newport News Va. 
March 8. 1862, and was one of the six marines 
Avho were killed by a shot before the sinking of 
the Cumberland. Mr. Humphrey's remains were 
not recovered but appropriate funeral services 
were held in the church of the First Cong. So- 
ciety of Athol March 19. 1862. A very large 
audience was present and Eev. Messrs Bailey, 
Norton and Fay of Athol and Rev. Mr. Nightin- 
gale of Groton participated in the services. 

Horace Hunt, 2. Reg. (See page 122), was 
among the first men that enlisted from Athol 
and went with his Reg. to the Upper Potomac ; 
was clerk for his Captain and afterwards in the 
Commissary Department ; was with his Reg. in 
the advance and retreat of Gen. Banks in the 
Shenandoah Valley and other engagements in 
Virginia ; went with it to New York to suppress 
riots and took a severe cold at that time, went 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 199 

with his Reg. to Tullahoma Tenn. where he was 
taken sick ; was two weeks on his way home 
and returned very feeble ; died at Athol April 
7. 1864 and was buried from the Baptist Church 
April 10. his Pastor Rev. G. L. Hunt preaching a 
funeral discourse which was published. Mr. 
Hunt's disease was Consumption. 

Joseph E. Jennings, 4. H. Artillery (See page 
135), joined the Reg. and was with it doing gar- 
rison duty in the Forts near Washington during 
the whole period of his service, and was dis- 
charged July 17. 1865. 

Milton N. Jillson, 27. Reg. (See page 127), 
joined his Reg. at the seat of war in North Ca- 
rolina in the spring of 1862 and was with it in 
the engagements at Kinston, Whitehall, Golds- 
boro', Washington and Gum Swamp N. C. and at 
Port Walthall and Arrowfield Church Va. ; was 
severely wounded in the right shoulder May 14. 
1864, from which wound he has continued to 
suffer more or less ; partially recovering he re- 
turned to his Reg. and was detailed for Hospital 
duty when the Yellow Fever was prevailing at 
Newbern, had the Fever but recovered and was 
at length discharged at the expiration of the 
term of his enlistment May 1. 1865, returning 
home in comfortable health. 



200 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

William H. Johnson, 21. Reg. (See page 125), 
went with this Reg. to Annapolis and North Caro- 
lina, was in the engagements at Roanoke Island 
and Newbern in the latter of which he fell mortal- 
ly wounded and died the next day March 15. 1862. 
His remains were buried with those of a number 
of his comrades at Newbern. 

Alfred Johnson, 13. Reg. (See page 124), was 
with his Reg. in the engagements at Cedar Moun- 
tain, Thoroughfare Gap, Bull Run No. 2, South 
Mountain, Antietam (where he was slightly 
wounded) Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and 
Gettysburg where he was taken prisoner. Being 
paroled for exchange he returned home, but 
went back to his Reg. and served for the period 
of three years. 

Thomas Johnson, 2. Reg. (See page 122), was 
among the first to go into service from Athol, 
and was with his Reg. in all the engagements in 
the Shenandoah Valley, in Tennessee and Geor- 
gia; reenlisted Jan. 1864 and was with Gen. 
Sherman in his triumphant march through Geor- 
gia and the Carolinas, but when his Reg. reached 
Washington in the summer of 1865, under the 
mistaken opinion that the veterans were to be 
retained in service while the new troops were 
mustered out, he deserted. His service in all 
other respects was honorable. 



PEESONAL HISTORY. 201 

William A. Judd, 53. Reg. (See page 132), 
went with his Reg. to Louisiana and was detailed 
as Nurse in the Hospital March 1. 1863 ; was in 
the same capacity at Baton Rouge a month later 
and did not rejoin his Company till Aug. 9. Mr. 
Judd returned home with his Reg. Aug. 24, 1863. 

Arthur N. Judd, 53. Reg. (See page 132), bro- 
ther of the above, went with his Reg. to Louis- 
iana but was carried to the Marine Hospital at 
New Orleans sick with Rheumatism Feb. 3. 1863 ; 
was taken prisoner at Brashear City June 23. 
was carried to Ship Island and exchanged July 
9. returned to N. Orleans Aug. 5. rejoined his 
Company Aug. 11. and returned with it Aug. 24. 
1863. In 1864 Mr. Judd reentered the service 
in the 29. Unattached Company Heavy Artillery 
and did garrison duty in the Forts near Wash- 
ington till the close of the war, when he returned 
to Athol. His discharge was July 16. 1865. 

James Kelley, 27. Reg. (See page 122), went 
with the Reg. to Annapolis where he was detailed 
Orderly for Gen. Foster and served in this capa- 
city in the battles at Roanoke Island and New- 
bern, and in various other marches and engage- 
ments in North Carolina ; went with Gen. Foster 
to Tennessee when that General relieved Gen. 
Burnside and was with him as Orderly till the 



202 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

three years of his enhstment had expired. Mr. 
Kelley was discharged Oct. 1. 1864 and returned 
to Athol. 

George L. Kendall, 27. Reg. (See page 127), 
was one of the recruits that joined the Reg. in 
North Carolina in 1862 : was soon detailed Or- 
derly for Col. Lee of the 27. Reg. and served in 
this capacity in various expeditions and engage- 
ment in North Carolina and Virginia, particu- 
larly in the siege of WashingtoUj'at Gum Swamp, 
at Walthall, Arrowfield Church and Drury's Bluff 
After the capture of Col. Lee Mr. Kendall was 
again detailed to serve in the Quartermaster's 
Department, and was discharged at the close of 
the period of his enlistment, Sept. 27. 1864. 

Charles L. Kendall, 99. N. Y. Reg. (See page 
136), enlisted as a Musician in this Reg. when it 
was known as " the Coast Guard " and served at 
Fortress Monroe till the close of the Summer of 
1862 when by a Government order the Regi- 
mental Bands were discontinued. Mr. Kendall's 
second enlistment was in 1863 in the Band of 
the 1st Brigade 2d Division 6th Corps and he 
served at the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North 
Anna, Coal Harbor, Petersburg, Winchester, 
Fisher's Hill, Middletown and other places till 
the war closed and he was discharged. He en- 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 203 

tered the service the third time in the Band of 
the School Ship, stationed at New London Ct. 
and is now (Jan. 1866) doing duty at that post. 

Charles W. Kendall, 53. Reg. (See page 132), 
was made Corporal Oct. 17. 1862, went with his 
Reg. to Louisiana and April 8. 1863 was detailed 
as Harness Maker in the Quartermaster's Depart- 
ment, and by virtue of this detail returned to 
the ranks; rejoined the Company Aug. 11. and 
returned home with it Aug. 24. 1863. 

C. Dwight Kelton, 32. Reg. (See page 130), 
joined the Reg. at Fort Warren and went with it 
to Washington and Harrison's Landing Va. ac- 
companied it to Maryland when the rebels in- 
vaded that State ; was detailed to care for a sun 
struck comrade F. W. Ripley, whom he took to 
the house of a Mr. Smizer, Silver Springs, Md. ; 
remained there till the sick man was better, when 
he went to Alexandria Va. on his return to his 
Reg., was taken sick at that place of Pneumonia 
and died there Oct. 31. 1862. His Father Calvin 
Kelton Esqr. had his remains disinterred and 
brought to Athol for final burial, and the funeral 
was in the church of the Evangelical Society of 
Athol Nov. 11. 1862. Inquiries directed to Sil- 
ver Springs brought an interesting account of 
his watching and labors there, and the day be- 



204 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

fore his burial a letter came from Mr. Ripley to 
C. Kelton Esqr. making inquiries after his son 
and acknowledging his faithful service as the ap- 
parent means of saving the life of his comrade. 

Thomas Kenney, 27. Reg. (See page 128), was 
one of the Band that accompanied the 27. Reg. 
to North Carolina ; and after serving at Roanoke 
Island, Newbern and in various expeditions was 
discharged Aug. 30. 1862 by a Government Or- 
der discontinuing Regimental Bands. 

Owen Kenney, 21 Reg. (See page 125), broth- 
er of the above, went with his Reg. into service 
in North Carolina and was in the engagements 
at Roanoke Island and Newbern. At a later 
period he entered the 2d U. S. Cavalry, and is 
supposed to have served in it till the three years 
of his enlistment had expired. 

Joseph W. Kilburn, 2. Vermont Reg. (See page 
136), enlisted as early as May 1861 and was in 
Washington with his Reg. June 20. ; was in the 
1st Bull Run battle and afterwards in the en- 
gagements at Lee's Mills, WilHamsburg, and in 
the seven days fight near Richmond, at Antie- 
tam, at Fredericksburg in both battles, at Banks 
Ford, at Gettysburg, at Rappahannock Station 
and in the first of the severe engagements under 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 205 

Gen. Grant commencing May 5. 1884. Mr. Kil- 
burn was run over while on duty, May 12. by a 
mounted aid and severely injured in the back, 
but had been in the Hospital only a single 
month when the three years of his enlistment 
expired and he was discharged June 29. 1864. 
Mr. Kilburn has nearly recovered from the in- 
jury received. 

Lauriston I. King, 53 Reg. (See page 132), 
was left sick in the Hospital at New York when 
his Keg. went to Louisiana ; rejoined the Com- 
pany March 5. 1863 but was left sick when Gen. 
Banks moved his troops April 9 ; remained feeble 
but during a part of the time performed light 
service in the Hospital ; rejoined the Company 
Aug. 11. and returned with it very sick Aug. 24. 
failed rapidly late in Oct. and died Nov. 2. 1863 
of a complication of diseases contracted in the 
service. His funeral was in the Church at So. 
Athol Nov. 4. 1864. Mr. King left a wife and 
one child. 

Asa L. Kneeland, 32. Reg. (See page 130), 
went with the Reg. from Fort Warren to Wash- 
ington and Harrison's Landing, and was in the 
battles at Antietam Md. and at Fredericksburg, 
Chancellorsville and other places in Va. ; reen- 
listed Jan. 1864 and came home on a furloujxh, 

18 



206 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

had the Measles soon after his return to Va. 
which left him without the power of speech a 
number of weeks ; was sent to one of the Hos- 
pitals at Washington when partially recovering 
he was made Steward of the Ward he had been 
in ; was on duty there for nine days, when the 
rebel forces approached the Forts commanding 
Washington; returned to his Reg. Sept. 2. 1864 
and was in some of the desperate charges on the 
rebel works at Petersburg; took part in the 
Weldon Rail Road Raid, and finally in all the 
great battles that resulted in the fall of Rich- 
mond and the surrender of Lee's Army, aided in 
receiving the arms of the rebel troops and then 
returned to Washington over the old battle 
fields to be present at the Grand Review and to 
be mustered out of service June 28. 1865 having 
served three years and seven months. Mr. 
Kneeland was commissioned 2d Lieut, in Comp. 
K. and 1st Lieut, in Company F. 

Ebenezer Kneeland, 32. Reg. (See page 130), 
brother of the above ; went with him and was 
in the battles at Antietam, Fredericksburg, 
Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Williamsport, Ma- 
nassas Gap &c. Reenlisted Jan. 1864 and came 
home on a furlough ; returned and was in the 
battles at the Wilderness and Spottsylvania in 
the latter of which May 12. 1864 he was wound- 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 207 

ed in the index fing;er of the left hand. This 
wound proving very severe from inflammation 
he came home to recruit and was transferred to 
the Invalid Corps Dec. 26. 1864. Serving in 
this Mr. Kneeland was a nurse in one of the 
Hospitals at Washington, till he was finally dis- 
charged Aug. 11. 1865, and then returned home 
in health. 

C. Walter Knowlton, 32. Reg. (See page 130), 
like his comrades mentioned above, went from 
Fort Warren to Washington and into actual ser- 
vice in Virginia and Maryland, at Antietam, 
Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, 
Williamsport, Manassas Gap, Culpepper, Rappa- 
pahannock Station, Mountain Run and Mine 
Run ; and in 1864 at the Wilderness, Spottsylva- 
nia, Shady Grove Church and before Petersburg. 
In 1865 Mr. Knowlton participated in all the 
battles near Richmond which resulted in its cap- 
ture and after assisting to receive the rebel arms 
at the surrender of Lee's army, he was mustered 
out at Burksville Va. April 19. 1865, the three 
years of his enlistment having expired. 

Guilford W. Lamb, 16. Reg. (See page 124), 
was among the number drafted from Athol July 
1863 and was accepted and reported for service. 
He joined his Reg. in Virginia and was in the 



208 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

engagements at Mine Run, the Wilderness, 
Spottsylvania, Coal Harbor, before Petersburg, 
and others and having been discharged at the 
end of the war returned home. 

Daniel W. Larned, 27. Reg. (See page 127), 
went with his Reg. into service in North Caroli- 
na ; was 5th and afterwards Orderly Sergeant of 
Comp. B ; was in the engagements at Roanoke 
Island, Newbern, Kinston, Whitehall, Goldsboro', 
the Siege of Washington and Gum Swamp ; re- 
enlisted Jan. 1864 ; was in the engagements at 
Port Walthall and Arrowfield Church in the lat- 
ter of which he was severely wounded in the 
left foot, came home on a furlough and was dis- 
abled for seven months tho' for three months of 
this time he acted as Clerk of the Company. 
Dec. 3. 1864 he was commissioned 2d Lieutenant 
and March 8. 1865 he led the Company in the 
desperate fight near Kinston N. C. in which he 
was wounded in the right side and right leg and 
taken prisoner. Mr. Larned was carried first to 
Salisbury N. C. and thence to Libby Prison 
Richmond where he was very sick with a fever ; 
but recovering was exchanged and rejoined his 
Reg. at Newbern and was mustered with his Reg. 
out of service June 26. 1865. Mr. Larned was 
made 1st Lieutenant April 6. 1865 and re- 
ceived a Captain's commission under the Gover- 
nor's Order May 15. 1865. 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 209 

Patrick Leonard, 21. Reg. (See page 125), 
went with his Eeg. to North Carolina; was 
woimded very severely in the right leg in the 
battle of Roanoke Island and this wound proved 
fatal eight days after. Mr. Leonard died as the 
troops were leaving for the capture of Newbern 
and was buried on the Island. 

Enoch T. Lewis, 53. Reg. (See page 133), was 
made Sergeant Oct. 17, 1862 and went with his 
Regiment to Louisiana; was in the fight at the 
capture of Fort Bisland, in all the marches of 
the Reg. and its engagements at the capture of 
Port Hudson and returned with his Reg. in 
health Aug. 24. 1863. 

Elijah W. Lincoln, Navy. (See page 135), en- 
listed early in the war and went from Washing- 
ton on board the Governor Steamer at Fortress 
Monroe as a marine, started for Hilton Head S. 
C. under Commodore Dupont ; was shipwrecked 
off the coast of South Carolina; was one of 200 
men who held up for 38 hours one of the large 
beams of the ship ; was taken off at length in 
the night by the Sabine ; went on to the coast 
of Florida, but was not engaged there ; came 
back to Washington April 1862 ; went Nov. 
1862 to Cairo and there remained on duty till 
the time of his enlistment had expired. Mr. 



210 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

Lincoln was made Corporal, then Sergeant and 
for eight months was Acting Lieutenant, and 
was discharged Aug. 19. 1865 with high com- 
mendations. 

George W. Lincoln, 53. Reg. (See page 133), 
went with the 53. Reg. to Louisiana and was 
left sick at Algiers La. April 9. 1863 when Gen. 
Banks moved against the enemy and was not 
able to rejoin his Comp. till Aug. 11. He re- 
turned home in comfortable health Aug. 24. 1863. 
In 1864 Mr. Lincoln re-entered the service in 
the 5. Reg. under the call for one hundred days' 
men, but tho' he was anxious to go to the field 
and fell in three times when troops were sent 
forward he was nevertheless retained on service 
in the vicinity of Boston till the time of regular 
discharge, Nov. 16. 1864. 

Fernaldo L. Lord, 27. Reg. (See page 127), 
was one of the recruits that joined the Reg. in 
North Carolina in 1862 ; was in the engage- 
ments at Kinston, Whitehall, Goldsboro', in the 
siege at Washington and at Gum Swamp ; went 
with his Reg. to Va. and reenlisted Jan. 1864; 
came home and returned to take part in the 
battles at Port Walthall, Arrowfield Church, 
Coal Harbor and other places in Virginia ; was 
with his Reg. in North Carolina early in 1865 



PEESONAL HISTORY. 211 

and in the desperate conflict near Kinston 
March 8.; was severely wounded in the arm 
and taken prisoner with nearly every otEer man 
of his Reg. ; was carried to Richmond and soon 
paroled for exchange, was sent to Annapolis, 
but his wound prevented him from active ser- 
vice till the time of his discharge, which was 
June 18. 1865. Mr, Lord was in service three 
years lacking one month. 

Amos H. Locke, 99. N. Y. Reg. (See page 
136), enlisted as Musician in this Reg. which 
was then known as " the Coast Guard " and sta- 
tioned at Fortress Monroe, and did duty in the 
Band of it to which he belono-ed till Reg;imental 
Bands were discontinued by an order from the 
Government in 1862 when he returned home. 

Martin L. Maynard, 36. Reg. (See page 131), 
went with his Reg. in 1862 into service in Va. 
was at the battle at Fredericksburg ; accompa- 
nied his Reg. to Kentucky and when it pro- 
tected the polls at Cincinnati, went with it into 
the engagements and shared in all its perils 
back of Vicksburg and returned with it to Ken- 
tucky and East Tennessee ; helped to defend 
Knoxville but on one occasion, being lame, was 
obliged to throw away his musket and knapsack 
and run for his life j returned with the Reg. to 



212 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

Virginia and was in the great battles before Pe- 
tersburg was invested ; was terribly wounded in 
the leg there, the ball shattering the bones be- 
low the knee ; had his limb amputated and was 
brought to the Dale Hospital at Worcester where 
he remained till he was discharo-ed Feb. 5. 1865. 
Mr. Maynard is the only Athol soldier who lost 
a limb during the war. 

John N. Mars, 1st North Carolina Reg. (See 
page 137). This was a Colored Reg. and Mr. 
Mars was commissioned as its Chaplain and 
joined it at Newbern ; but being sick at the time 
the Reg. went to Folly Island during the attack 
on Charleston he did not accompany it. Re- 
maining at Newbern some months in charge of 
Army Stores he was at length ordered to Nor- 
folk and Portsmouth Va. where he remained as 
Chaplain for a number of Regiments till Jan. 
1864. when his health having become impaired 
he asked for a discharge. This was at length 
granted him but he remained for some months 
in Va. laboring for the Freedmen, and is now, 
Jan. 1866, the honored pastor of a very large 
Colored Cono-resration in Baltimore. 



'O' 



Horatio W. McClellen, 27. Reg. (See page 
127), was one of the recruits that joined this 
Reg. in North Carolina in 1862.; was in the 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 213 

Kinston, Whitehall and Goldsboro' fights ; par- 
ticipated in the defence of Washington N. C. and 
in the Gum Swamp engagement; was made 
Corporal June 19. 1863; was at Port Walthall 
and Arrowfield Church Va. in May 1864 and 
was wounded at the latter May 9. was removed 
to Philadelphia where he died of Scarletina 
June 21. 1864. leaving a mother in Athol. 

Norris B. Meacham, 27. Reg. (See page 127), 
went to N. Carolina with his Reg. in 1861. was 
in the fights at Roanoke Island, Kinston, White- 
hall and Goldsboro' also, in the siege of Wash- 
ington and other engagements and expeditions 
in N. Carolina; was at Port Walthall, Arrow- 
field Church and Drury's Bluff Va. in 1864. was 
captured with 29 others of his Company in the 
fight last mentioned ; was in Libby Prison one 
week and in Andersonville four months where 
he suffered greatly from starvation and scurvy ; 
was taken to Savannah and then to Millen Ga. 
and paroled Nov. 19. for exchange ; was brought 
on to Annapolis very feeble, and reached 
home Jan. 24. 1864. Mr. Meacham gradually 
gained, but the term of his enlistment having 
expired long before, he was discharged March 7. 
1865. 

George W. Meacham, 27. Reg. (See page 



214 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

127), was wiffi his Reg. in the engagements at 
Roanoke Island and Newbern, but on the march 
to Trenton in July 1862 he was sunstruck and 
carried back to the Hospital. Oct. 16. 1862 he 
was discharged as unfit for duty and returned 
home. 

In 1863 Mr. Meacham reentered the service 
in the 1st Heavy Artillery and went to the front 
with that Regiment. In the battle at Spottsyl- 
vania May 19. 1864 this Reg. lost very heavily 
and Mr. Meacham had a finger shot off and was 
also slightly wounded in the hip. He w^as sent 
to one of the Hospitals in Philadelphia, where 
after his recovery, he w^as employed as a nurse 
till the end of the war and was discharged May 
16. 1865. 

Isaiah S. Merrill, 61. Reg. (See page 137), left 
with his Res;, for Fortress Monroe in Oct. 1864 
and went to City Point where the Reg. was put 
into the Eno;ineer Brig-ade and worked six 
months on the defences of City Point. April 2. 
1865 Mr. Merrill was in the great charge upon 
the Forts before Petersburo- and entered that 
city with his Reg. the next day ; went to Burks- 
ville April 18. and a few days later started for 
Washington, through Richmond. On a review 
in that city Mr. Merrill was partially sunstruck, 
and a few days later was struck down in the 



PEESONAL HISTORY. 215 

same manner and left on the ground as the Reg. 
moved on and so was obliged with a single com- 
rade to walk to Washington which city he 
reached May 13. June 3. 1865 Mr. Merrill was 
mustered out of service with his Reg. and re- 
turned home in comfortable health. He was 
counted upon the quota for North Adams. 

John F. Merrill, 10. Reg. (See page 123), bro- 
ther of the above, went into the service when 
this Reg. was formed in 1861, and accompanied 
it to Washington and at a later period to the 
front in Virginia ; took part in the operations at 
Yorktown and Williamsburg and in the battle 
of May 8. 1862 at Savage's Station and June 25. 
at Fair Oaks was severely wounded by a ball 
that entered the upper part of his chest and 
passing through his lungs was cut out in his 
back. He began to bleed profusely but was 
carried from the field by his brother James L. 
Merrill, and supported by him in a sitting pos- 
ture for much of the time for five weeks to pre- 
vent hemorrhage when he began to gain tho' he 
could not lie down for three months without 
internal bleeding ; was at length removed to a 
Hospital at Baltimore where he remained about 
five months before he could come home. Mr. 
Merrill was discharged Sept. 15. 1862 and has 
gradually improved in health, tho' he may never 



216 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

be well. He has repeatedly tried to reenter the 
service but could not be accepted. The part of 
his overcoat carried into the wound in his chest 
passed through his lungs and was taken out, 
months after the ball, from the opening in his 
back. 

James L. Merrill, 10. Reg. (See page 123), 
brother of the above ; went like him into service 
in Washington and Virginia ; was with his bro- 
ther at Yorktown, WilHamsburg, Savage's Station 
and Fair Oaks, had the lock of his musket car- 
ried away just as his brother fell as detailed 
above; was ordered by his Captain Miller to 
care for his wounded brother which he did went 
with him to Baltimore, where he himself was sick 
for many months, tho' he acted as nurse a part 
of the time in the Hospital ; and at the end of 
sixteen months in the Hospital, viz. Aug. 28. 
1863 he was discharged as unable to continue in 
the service. Mr. Merrill has in a good degree 
regained his health. 

Joseph A. Merrill, 36. Reg. (See page 131), 
brother of the above ; went with his Reg. to 
Washington and into service in Va. was first in 
battle at Fredericksburg, and then went with his 
Reg. to Kentucky and was in the chase after the 
rebel Gen. Morgan ; went to Mississippi and was 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 217 

in the engagements back of Vicksburg till its 
capture ; returned to Kentucky and went into 
East Tennessee; was in the battle of Blue 
Springs and helped defend Fort Saunders near 
Knoxville ; returned to Va. in March 1864 and 
was in the battles of the Wilderness, Spott- 
sylvania, Coal Harbor and before Petersburg, 
June 17. 1864. July 28. Mr Merrill was severe- 
ly wounded in the head by a ball, just as he 
had raised his rifle to fire, and was helped off the 
field by his brother Henry, named below, and 
another comrade. Partially recovering, he came 
home, but the injury received rendered him un- 
fit for lono-er service and he was dischar^jjed Dec. 
19. 1864. Up to this time Jan. 1866, his health 
has not been restored. Mr. Merrill was made 
Sergeant July 1. 1863. 

Henry S. Merrill, 36. Reg. (See page 131), 
brother of the four mentioned above, was like 
his brother Joseph A. in the engagement at Fred- 
ericksburg, and in service in Kentucky and 
back of Vicksburg ; was very sick while his Reg. 
was in service in East Tennessee, but was with 
it in the battle of the Wilderness May 6. 1864 
and was severely wounded there by a ball that 
penetrated his side ; was among the 280 wound- 
ed soldiers who fought their way back to Frede- 
ricksburg, still carrying his rifle, crossed the 



218 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

river and at length reached Acqnia Creek ; help- 
ed construct a raft and was taken off from it in 
the Potomac ; was carried to Washington where 
the ball was at length extracted and he came 
home on a furlough. Six other balls passed 
through his coat &c. in the encounter. Partially 
recovering, Mr. Merrill rejoined his Reg. and was 
with it in all the desperate fighting that resulted 
in the fall of Richmond and the overthrow of 
the Confederac}^, and was discharged with his 
Reg. June 8. 180 5, having previously received a 
second shot in his neck, which appears to have 
given him but little concern. 

Jonathan B. Mills, 36. Reg. (See page 131), 
went with his Reg. to Washington and was en- 
gaged with it at Fredericksburg, in Kentucky 
and back of Vicksburg ; was sun struck the day 
the Reg. left for Kentucky and was left behind ; 
overtook the Reg. in Kentucky and went with it 
into the hard service in East Tennessee when 
the men were glad to pick up and eat the ker- 
nels of corn found in the streets ; was sick on the 
return of the Reg. to Maryland and was four 
weeks in the Hospital at Annapolis his disease 
being Hernia, and the feebleness induced by this 
added to his deafness which at that time rendered 
him unfit for service procured for him his dis- 
charge Dec. 10. 18G1. Mr. Mills's health is in a 
good degree restored. 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 219 

Edmund Moore, 27. Reg. (See page 127), went 
with his Reg. to Annapolis and North Carolina ; 
was soon detailed as Orderly for Capt. Fearing 
on Gen. Burnside's Staff, and served in this capa- 
city wherever Gen. Barnside had command, in 
North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virgi- 
nia, till the three years of his enlistment had 
expired. Mr. Moore was discharged Sept. 27. 
1864 and returned home in health. 

James A. Moore, 53. Reg. (See page 133), went 
with his Reo". into service in Louisiana was in the 
engagement at Fort Bisland, and participated in 
all the marches and expeditions of the Reg. up 
to June 14. 1863 when in the assault upon Port 
Hudson he was wounded in the head ; was sent 
to the Hospital at Baton Rouge ; rejoined the 
Reg;. Auo;. 5. and returned with it Aug. 24, 1863. 
Mr. Moore has continued to suffer from his wound, 
which seemed only slight at the first. 

George F. Moore, 53. Reg. (See page 133), went 
with his Reg. to Louisiana and was with it, in 
health at Fort Bisland, Opelousas, Alexandria 
and Port Hudson doing his duty; was taken se- 
verely sick while the Reg. was returning home, 
and was left in the Hospital at Buffalo N. York. 
Mr. Moore soon recovered however and returned 
to Athol a few days after his comrades. 



220 PERSONAL HISTORY, 

George McRae, 53. Reg. (See page 133), went 
with his Reg. to Louisiana and participated in 
the fisj-htino; at Fort Bisland and in the marches 
to Alexandria and back to the Mississippi ; was 
taken sick before Port Hudson and sent into the 
Hospital at Baton Rouge but recovered suffi- 
ciently to rejoin his Company Aug. 9. and to re- 
turn home with it Auar. 24. 1863. 

John 0. Mowry, 27. and 55. Reg. (See page 
127)j went with the 27. Reg. to North Carolina, 
and was in the engagements at Roanoke Island, 
Newbern, Kinston, Whitehall and Goldsboro', 
was also in the defence of Washington N. C. and 
in the battle of Gum Swamp, but in June 1863 
he was transferred to the 55. Reg. (Colored) and 
made 2d Lieut, of Comp. L July 10. 1863 Mr. 
Mowry was Commissioned 1st Lieut, of Comp. B. 
and went with the Reg. into service in South 
Carolina. He was on James Island in the fight- 
ino: during; the sieQ:e of Charleston and went 
with his Reg. to Florida under Gen. Seymour. 
He was also in the engagement at Honey Hill 
but was never sick severely, and was never 
wounded, during a service of three years and 
eleven and a half months. About fourteen 
mouths he was Quartermaster of his Reg. and as 
such he returned to Mass. with his Reg. and was 
mustered out of the service Sept. 22. 1865. 



PEESONAL HISTORY/ 221 

George Morse, 27. Reg. (See page 127), went 
with his Reg. to North Carolina but was sick 
durino; the ens-ageraents at Roanoke Island and 
Newbern and did not participate in either. Mr, 
Morse was Wagoner ; but the state of his health 
was such that he was discharged April 4. 1862 
and returned home, feeble, with his Brother La- 
ban Morse Esqr. He has since regained his 
health in a good degree. 

Henry T. Morse, 27. Reg. Band, (See page 
128), went with his Reg. to North Carolina and 
in the battle at Roanoke Island aided in Hospi- 
tal duties as stretcher bearer, but during the 
fight at Newbern was sick on board a transport ; 
remained at Newbern on duty till Aug. 30. 1862 
when the Reg. Bands having been discontinued 
by an order of Government, he returned home. 
Mr. Morse reentered the service in 1863 in the 
Band of the 1st Brigade, 2d Div. 6th Army 
Corps, and was three months at Harpers Ferry 
and afterwards in service in the battles of the 
Wilderness, Spottsylvania, No. Anna, Coal Har- 
bor and before Petersburg ; went to Washington 
when Gen. Early threatened that city and parti- 
cipated in his defeat and the pursuit of him : was 
then sick for a time but rejoined his Corps to be 
present in the battles of Winchester, Fisher's 
Hill and Middletown under Gen. Sheridan. Nov. 



222 PEESONAL HISTORY. 

11. 1864 at the consolidation of his Brigade he 
was discharged and returned home. 

Leander B. Morse 27. and 56. Reg. (See page 
128), brother of the above, went into service in 
North CaroUna a member of the Band and after 
being on duty at Roanoke Island and Newbern 
was discharged Aug. 30. 1862 by a Government 
Order discontinuing; the Rearimental Bands. Mr. 
Morse reentered the service as a Musician in the 
56. Reg. in 1863 and with his Reg. became a 
part of the Army of the Potomac ; was on duty 
at the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, 
No. Anna, Coal Harbor, before Petersburg and at 
the Weldon Rail Road, and finally in the great 
movements of Gon. Grant in April 1865 which 
resulted in the f^ill of Richmond and the sur- 
render of Gen. Lee's Army. Mr. Morse was 
mustered out of the service July 22. 1865 and 
returned home in health. 

Frederick P. Morse, 56. Reg. (See page 134), 
served first for nine months in the 46. Reg. to 
fill the quota for Springfield. This part of his 
service was rendered in North Carolina. Mr. 
Morse reentered the service in 1863 and went 
with his Reg. the 56th to Virginia and was in the 
battles of the Wilderness, of Spottsylvania and in 
front of Petersburg, when his health failed and 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 223 

he returned to the Hospital at Readville Mass. 
where he remained for seven months. He re- 
joined his Reg. at Burkesville Va. returned with 
it to Alexandria and to Readville where he was 
discharged July 22. 1865. 

John R. Morse, 27. Reg. (See page 127), bro- 
ther of the above ; was made Corporal Oct. 1861 
and went with his Reg. to N. Ckirolina ; was in 
the battles at Roanoke Island, Newbern, Kinston, 
Whitehall and Goldsboro' ; participated in the 
defence of Washing-ton N. C. and in the eno:ao:e- 
ment at Gum Swamp ; came with his Reg. to 
Virginia and was with it in all its expeditions 
and engagements up to the time when the three 
years of his enlistment expired, particularly at 
Port Walthall, Arrowfield Church, Drury's Bluff 
and Coal Harbor, escaping wounds and sickness. 
Mr. Morse was detailed for pioneer service which 
often made his exposure great. He was dis- 
charged Sept. 27. 1864. 

George W. Nelson, 32. Reg. (See page 130), 
joined the Reg. when it was the First Battalion 
at Fort Warren ; went with it to Virginia ; was 
soon taken sick and was in the Hospital four 
months, disease Chronic Bronchitis ; was dis- 
charged Dec. 17. 1862 as unfit for service and 
returned home to regain his health. 



224 .PERSONAL HISTORY. 

John F. Nickerson, 11. U. S. Inf. (See page 
135), was engaged in recruiting service the 
greater part of the time for eighteen months ; 
was in the battle of Chancellorsville but soon af- 
ter his health failed and he was transferred to 
the Invalid Corps. After having been in the 
service for about two years he was discharged 
Aug. 6. 1863. 

Joseph Nickerson, 11. U. S. Inf (See page 
135), brother of the above, was engaged like 
his brother in recruiting for one year ; was in 
the battles at Antietam, Sharpsburg, Fredericks- 
burg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, was se- 
verely wounded in the last mentioned in his left 
arm, a ball passing through it ; recovering after 
two months he returned to his Reg. ; in the bat- 
tle of the Wilderness he was taken prisoner, was 
carried to Richmond and thence to Andersonville 
and afterward to Savannah and Millen, was very 
much reduced by sickness and starvation and 
left his prison Nov. 7. with those who took 
the oath of Allegiance to the Confederacy ; did 
not take the oath but was prevented from es- 
caping for a long time ; wandered over parts of 
Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Caro- 
lina as a sick rebel soldier but could not reach 
the lines of the Union Army till after the occu- 
pation of Augusta Ga. by our troops, was then 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 225 

sent to Savannah and home receiving his dis- 
charge June 23. 1865. Mr. Nickerson was in 
the service three years and eleven months and a 
prisoner one year and six days. 

Ruel R Nickerson, 11. U. S. Inf. (See page 
135), brother of the above — entered the ser- 
vice as a Drummer and was with his Reg. in the 
Peninsular Campaign under Gen. McClellan and 
in the battles of South Mountain and Antietam, 
but being disabled by a rupture he was dis- 
charged soon after the last mentioned engage- 
ments. Recovering, he enlisted in the Navy in 
the Autumn of 1864 and was on board the Gun 
Boat Talapoosa at and off Key West till the 
close of the war when he was discharged and re- 
turned in health. Mr. Nickerson was Hospital 
Steward on board the Talapoosa. 

William Nute, 2. Reg. (See page 122), was in 
the Company of young men that first entered 
the service from Athol ; was in the advance 
and retreat of Gen. Banks in the Shenandoah 
Valley and in the battle of Antietam, soon after 
which he was at his own request, transferred to 
the 4th U. S. Artillery, Comp. F which was called 
Bests' Battery. The transfer was made Oct. 
1862. Mr. Nute served for three full years. 

Adin Oakes, 53. Reg. (See page 133), went 



22G PERSONAL HISTORY. 

with his Reg. to Louisiana and participated in 
the Capture of Fort Bisland, in the marches to 
and from Alexandria and in the first eno-ao-e- 
ments at Port Hudson ; was wounded May 29. 
1863 at the last mentioned place in his back and 
was sent to the Hospital at Baton Rouge where 
he died June 29. 1863 from the effects of his 
wound. Mr. Oakes was buried at Baton Rouge 
and left a wife and children at Athol. 

James Oliver Jr. 21. and 61. Reg. (See page 
125), was commissioned, as soon as he had grad- 
uated at the Medical College, Assistant Surgeon 
in the 21. Reg. and joined that Reg. at Falmouth 
Va. In the 2d Btdl Run which was his first en- 
gagement Dr. Oliver was left in charge of the 
sick and wounded and taken prisoner, but soon 
managed to escape. He rejoined his Reg. at 
Alexandria and participated in the battles at 
South Mountain and Antietam and Oct. 11. 1862 
was ordered to Locust Spring Hospital at Antie- 
tam, where were four hundred badly wounded to 
be taken to Frederick City Md. Rejoining his 
Reg. Feb. 1863 he went with it through Ken- 
tucky and Cumberland Gap into East Tennessee 
to participate in the battles of Blue Springs, 
London and the famous defence of Knoxville. 
Jan. 1864 Dr. Oliver re-enlisted and took the 
sick and wounded by the way of Chattanooga 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 227 

and Nashville to Cincinnati while his Reg. 
marched over the mountains. Dr. Oliver was 
now Surgeon of the 21. Reg. and as such in 1864 
he passed through the battles of the Wilderness, 
Spottsylvania, Bethesda Church, Coal Harbor, 
the advance on Petersburg, the night charge of 
June 17. and the blowing up of the Burnside 
Mine July 30. He was promoted Surgeon May 
26. 1864, and having served three years was 
mustered out, Aug. 30. In Sept. 1864 he was 
commissioned Assistant Surgeon of the 61. Reg.; 
Oct. 18. Surgeon of the same and June 2. 1865 
Brigade Surgeon — and participated in the great 
battles of April 1865 which resulted in the fall 
of Richmond and the overthrow of the Rebel- 
lion. From Burkesville Va., Dr. Oliver came on 
throuo'h Richmond to Washinofton and was mus- 
tered out with his Reg. July 30. 1865. 

James Oliver, 2d, 27. Reg. (See page 127), was 
among the recruits that joined his Reg. in N. 
Carolina in 1862 ; participated in the engage- 
ments at Kinston, Whitehall and Goldsboro', also 
in the defence of Washington N. C. and at Gum 
Swamp. In Dec. 1863 Mr. Oliver was detailed 
as Regimental Armorer at Norfolk Va. which 
accounts for his escape from capture at Drury's 
Bluff Soon after the battle of Coal Harbor he 
was sick two weeks ; then he was detailed in the 



228 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

Hospital as nurse and then as Carpenter at the 
Base Hospital near the Point of Rocks on the 
Appomattox River ; then left the front, the time 
of his enlistment having expired and was dis- 
charged, in health, Sept. 27. 1864. 

Aaron Oliver, 27. Reg. (See page 127), was 
among the recruits who joined this Reg. in 1864 ; 
participated in ths expedition to Suffolk and was 
at Port Walthall and Arrowfield Church, was at 
the Camp in the rear during the fight at Drurj's 
Bluff, and after being in other engagements, was 
taken prisoner March 8. 1865 near Kinston N. 
C. was carried to Richmond and soon paroled for 
exchange, and was discharged with his Reg. June 
22. 1865. 

Sylvanus E. Oliver, 27. Reg. (See page 127), 
went with his Reg. to North Carolina in 1862 
and participated in the engagements at Roanoke 
Island, Newbern, Kinston, Whitehall, Goldsboro', 
in the defence of Washington and at Gum 
Swamp ; was afterwards at Arrowfield Church 
and in the desperate battle of Drurj's Bluff 
May 16. 1864 where he was taken prisoner with 
247 others of his Reg. was carried to Libby 
Prison Richmond, thence to Danville, and thence 
to Andersonville Ga. where he died of Chronic 
Diarrhoea brought on by starvation and cruel 



PERSONAL HISTOEY. 229 

treatment Aug;. 14. 1864. When carried to the 
prison Hospital Mr. Oliver was too low to recog- 
nize his comrades. The No. of his grave is 
4640. 

Otis Oliver, 27. Eeg. (See page 127), brother 
of the above, went with his Reg. to North Caro- 
lina and participated in the battles of Roanoke 
Island and Newbern, in the latter of which he 
was wounded in the knee, from which he has 
never wholly recovered, but rejoined his Reg. 
and Avas in the engagements at Kinston, White- 
hall and Goldsboro' and in the siege of Wash- 
ington N. C, and at Gum Swamp; was trans- 
ferred Aug. 4. 1863 to the Invalid Corps, and 
sent to New York — and to Washington when 
that city was threatened by Gen. Early, and 
finally discharged Oct. 3. 1864. 

Franklin Oliver, Jr., 27. Reg. (See page 127), 
brother of the above ; went like his brothers 
Sylvan us and Otis with his Reg. to North Caro- 
lina ; was in the engagements at Roanoke Island 
and at Newbern in the latter of which he was 
wounded in the back by a spent ball, but recov- 
ered in season to be with his Reg. at Kinston, 
Whitehall, Goldsboro' and its other eno:a2:ements 
and marches in North Carolina and Virginia, 
escaped capture at Drury's Bluff, and was dis- 

20 



230 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

charged in health at tlie close of three years' 
service viz. Sept. 27. 1864 and returned home. 

Ozi Oliver. 53. Reg. (See page 133), the last 
of four brothers that entered the service ; went 
with his Reg. to Louisiana and was engaged at 
Fort Bisland, j)articipated in all the tedious 
marches of the Reg. and in the fights before 
Port Hudson and returned with his Reg. in 
health Aug. 24. 1863. 

Ansel Orcott, 21. Reg. (See page 125), Avent 
with his Reg. to Annapolis and into service in 
North Carolina ; was in the engagements at 
Roanoke Island and Newbern, in the latter of 
which he was slightly wounded and had his 
musket struck in eacli engagement ; is supposed 
to have been in other engagements the particu- 
lars of which cannot be learned and to have 
been discharged at the close of three years' ser- 
vice. Mr. Orcott was for some months in the 
Hospital at Portsmouth Grove R. I. 

J. Henry Packard, 27. Reg. (See page 127), 
went with his Reg. to North Carolina and was 
in the battles at Roanoke Island, Newbern. Kins- 
ton, Whitehall, Goldsboro', in and about Wash- 
ington N. C. and at Gum Swamp. Mr. Packard 
w^as in the Hospital at Portsmouth Va. during 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 231 

the campaign of the 27. Reg. in that State, sick 
with Rheumatism but recovered and at the close 
of the three years of his enlistment, was dis- 
charged, viz. Sept. 27. 1864. Mr. Packard was 
for a considerable time Cook for his Company, 

Jam.es C. Parker, 21. Reg. (See page 125), 
went with his Reg. to Annapolis and was Cook 
for his Company ; went in this capacity to North 
Carolina ; was sick at the time of the capture 
of Roanoke Island and on board a transport; 
was mortally Avounded by a ball through the 
abdomen in the battle of Newbern and died the 
next day March 15. 1862. Mr. Parker was in 
the thickest of the fight, but his rifle missed fire 
each time. He was buried at Newbern and left 
in Athol a wife (since dead) and three children. 

Chauncey Parkman Jr., 1. H. Artillery, (See 
page 134), went to his Reg. into service in Vir- 
ginia and was in the battle at Spottsylvania May 
17. 1864 when he was severely and as it proved 
fatally wounded by a shell in the head and side ; 
was removed with the wounded to Harewood 
Hospital Washington where he died June 3. 
1864. Mr. Parkman left one child in Athol. 
He was buried at Washington. 

Emory A. Peckham, 27. Reg. (See page 127), 



232 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

went with the 27th to North Carolina and parti- 
cipated in the engagements at Roanoke Island, 
Newbern, Kinston, Whitehall and Goldsboro', 
also in the defence of Washino-ton N. C. and in 
the battle of Gum Swamp. Mr. Peckham ac- 
companied his Reg. to Virginia when it engaged 
the enemy at Port Walthall, Arrowfield Church, 
Coal Harbor and other places, and having served 
three years was discharged Sept. 27. 1864 and 
returned home in health. 

Freeman G. Perry, 53. Reg. (See page 133), 
went with his Reg. to Louisiana and after being 
in the engagement at Fort Bisland and partici- 
pating in the marches of the 53d to Alexandria 
and back to the Mississippi River at Port Hud- 
son he was taken sick and sent to the Hospital 
at Baton Rouge June 5. 1863. Mr. Perry re- 
joined the Company of Capt. Fay, July 14. and 
returned with it to Athol Aug. 24. 1863. May 
1. 1863 Mr. Perry was made Corporal in Comp. 
E in the place of C. W. Kendall, detailed as 
Harness Maker. 

Leander W. Phelps, 2. Reg. (vSee page 123), 
and 1. Heavy Artillery (See page 134), was the 
first man that offered himself as a soldier in 
Athol at the breaking out of the Rebellion ; 
was mustered into the service May 11. 1861, 



PEESONAL HISTORY. 233 

and went with the first company of soldiers 
from this place under Col. Gordon to the Upper 
Potomac ; was in the engagements at and about 
Winchester Va. during Gen. Banks's advance and 
retreat in the Shenandoah Valley when our 
troops were ten days without rations ; was 
slightly wounded in the hip at the 1st Freder- 
icksburg battle ; was in the engagements at 
Cedar Mountain and Antietam, in the last of 
which he Avas severely wounded by a ball which 
passed through his hand. Being disabled he 
was discharged April 3. 1863, but recovering the 
use of his hand he reentered the service in the 
1st Heavy Artillery and was engaged in the 
battles at Spottsjdvania Court House, No. Anna 
River, Tolopotomy Creek, Coal Harbor, Peters- 
burg in June 1864, Strawberry Plains, Deep 
Bottom, Poplar Spring Church, Boyd ton Plank 
Road, Weld on Rail Road, Hatcher's Run and 
finally participated in the conflicts of April 
1865 when Lee's army was routed and Peters- 
burg and Richmond captured, soon after which 
he was discharged and returned to Athol with 
liealth impaired. Mr. Phelps was first Corporal 
of his Company. 

Foster W. Phelps, 27. Reg. (See page 128), 
went with his Reg. to Annapolis and into ser- 
vice in North Carolina and was detailed as Or- 



234 PERSONAL HISTORY.- 

derly for Gen. Foster ; served with him in this 
capacity during the Campaigns in North Caro- 
lina, Kentucky and Tennessee ; reenlisted in 
1864 and was immediately detached from his 
Company for the same service with Gen. Foster ; 
was sick at home for the period of eight months 
after reenlistins; and was discharufed at the close 
of the war, viz. June 12. 1865, having served 
three years and nine months. 

Charles C. Phelps, 21. Reg. (See page 125), 
brother of the above mentioned Leander and 
Foster, went with the Reg. to North Carolina 
and was detailed as private Orderly for Major 
Richmond ; served in this capacity for two 
months when he held the same position under 
Maj. Gen. Burnside, and was with him in all his 
battles and marches in North Carolina, Virginia, 
Kentucky and Tennessee. Mr. Phelps reenlisted 
Feb. 12. 1864 and was at once detached from the 
21. Reg. for his service under Gen. Burnside, and 
when that General resigned Mr. Phelps was 
ordered to report to Maj. Gen. Park. He was 
discharged July 22. 1865 and returned to Athol 
in health. 

Asa Philips, 30. Reg. (See page 129), went 
with the Reg. into camp at Pittsfield and started 
for the seat of war under Gen. Butler, but died 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 235 

at or near Fortress Monroe Jan. 30. 1862. His 
remains were brought to Athol for burial and he 
left here a wife and children. 

John R Pierce, 53. Reg. (See page 133), 
though not subject to a draft, enlisted and went 
with his Regiment to Louisiana, was detailed 
as Chief Cook of Comp. E Oct. 17. 1862; went 
with his Reg. on all its expeditions and was with 
it in all its engagements up to July 4. 1863 
when he was sent from before Port Hudson and 
just before its capture to the Hospital at Baton 
Rouge, sick; started for Mass. on board the St. 
Mary's Aug. 7. arrived in New York Aug. 14, 
and reached home Aug. 19. 1863, very feeble 
but improving. Mr. Pierce regained his health. 

Albert D. Pond, 27. Reg. (See page 128), went 
with his Reg. into service in North Carolina and 
was with it in the engagements at Roanoke Is- 
land, Newbern, Kinston, Whitehall and Golds- 
boro'; was on duty constantly in the defence of 
Washington N. C. and was engaged at Gum 
Swamp ; went with the Reg to Virginia, reen- 
listed Jan. 1864, and after a furlough of thirty 
days returned to take part in the engagements 
at Port Walthall, Arrowfield Church, Drury's 
Bluff (where he escaped capture), Coal Harbor, 
and before Petersburg, was wounded June 3. in 



236 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

the hip but disabled for a week only ; returned 
with his Eeg*. to North Carolina and was Actino; 
Regimental Quartermaster at the time of the 
desperate conflict near Kinston March 8. 1865 
when nearly the entire Reg. was captured ; was 
discharged July 20. 1865 and returned home in 
health. Mr. Pond was made Corporal May 9. 
1864, Sergeant Sept. 27. 1864 and was Commis- 
sioned First Lieutenant May 9. 1865. 

John Plunkett, 30. Reg. (See page 129), joined 
his Rei»:. in 1864 and was with it under Gen. 
Sheridan in the last of the great battles in Vir- 
ginia which resulted in the capture of Richmond 
and Lee's Army and the overthrow of the Con- 
federacy. Mr. Plunkett is at this time, Jan. 
1866, still in service with his Reg. in Virginia. 

Rufus Putnam 53. Reg. (See page 133), was 
detailed for Hospital service Oct. 17. 1862 ; was 
left as Nurse in the Hospital at Baton Rouge 
April 1. 1863 ; served in this capacity till Aug. 9. 
1863 when he rejoined the Company and return- 
ed with it to Athol in health Auo;. 24. 1863. 

John E. Rand, 21. and 56. Reg. (See page 125), 
went into service with the 21. Reg. in North Ca- 
rolina ; was in the battles at Roanoke Island, 
Newbern and Camden, in the last of which he 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 237 

was wounded in the hand and sHghtly in the ab- 
domen, (a ball striking a button and glancing 
apparently prevented the latter from being a 
fatal wound.) Mr. Rand was also in the 2d Bull 
Run fight when he was taken prisoner but was 
paroled for exchange the next day, but having 
been partially disabled he was discharged Jan. 
25. 1863. A few months later he reentered the 
service in the 56th Res:, but whether he served 
in it or not, those in charge of this record are 
uncertain. 

Joshua Rich, 32. Reg. (See page 131), went 
with this Reg. into service in Va. and with it to 
Lexington Kentucky and to protect the polls at 
Cincinnati Ohio ; accompanied the Reg. to Mis- 
sissippi and was in the engagement at Jackson 
and in all the service in the rear of Vicksburg ; 
returned to Kentucky and assisted in the defence 
of Knoxville in East Tennessee ; came to Virgi- 
nia and was killed in the battle of the Wilderness 
May 6. 1864. A ball passed through the body 
of Mr. Rich from side to side and he lived but 
three hours after he was wounded, his remains 
falling into the hands of the enemy. Mr. Rich 
was made Corporal April 1, 1863. He left a wife 
in Athol. 

Samuel Rich, 27. Reg. (See page 128), was 



238 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

with his Reg. nearly three years in service in 
North CaroHna and Virginia, participating in the 
ehgagements at Roanoke Ishmd, Newbern, Kins- 
ton, AYhitehall, Goldsboro', the defence of Wash- 
ington N. C. and at Gum Swamp, as also in the 
expedition to Suffolk Va. and in the battles at 
Port Walthall, Arrowfield Church and Drury's 
Bluff, in the last mentioned of which he was ta- 
ken prisoner with a large number of his com- 
rades ; w^is taken to Richmond, thence to Dan- 
ville and then to Andersonville Ga., where he 
died of Chronic Diarrhoea induced by starva- 
tion and cruel treatment, July 28. or Aug. 1. 
1864. The number of his grave is 4233. 

William Richardson, 27. Reg. (See page 128), 
also of the 56. Reg. (See page 134), belonged to 
the Band of the 27. Reg. and went with it into 
service in North Carolina; was on duty at Roa- 
noke Island and in the capture of Newbern, but 
was discharged Aug. 31. 1862 by a Government 
Order discontinuing; Reu'imental Bands. Mr. 
Richardson returned to Athol but reentered the 
service in 1863 as a Musician in the 56. Reg. 
and went with this Reg. when it became a part 
of the Army of the Potomac under Gen. Grant; 
served in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsyl- 
vania, No. Anna, Coal Harbor, before Petersburg 
and at the Weldon Rail Road ; and finally parti- 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 239 

cipated in the capture of Richmond, Petersburg 
and Lee's Army and the overthrow of the Con- 
federacy. Mr. Richardson was discharged July 
22. 1865 and returned home in health. 

James H. Richardson, 27. Reg. (See page 128), 
participated in the engagements of his Reg. in 
North Carolina and Virginia up to May 16. 1864, 
particularly in the capture of Roanoke Island 
and Newbern, and in the engagements at Kins- 
ton, Whitehall, Goldsboro', in and about Wash- 
ington N. C. and at Gum Swamp; also at Port 
Walthall, Arrowfield Church and Drury's Bluff 
Va. ; was taken prisoner at Drury's Bluff May 
16. 1864; was carried to Richmond, to Danville 
and to Andersonville Ga., was also in the rebel 
prisons at Savannah and Millen Ga. ; was brought 
very low by starvation and disease but in Nov. 
1864 was paroled for exchange and brought to 
Annapolis; came home early in Jan. 1865 very 
feeble but improving and was discharged Jan. 18. 
of the same year. Mr. Richardson, like many 
others, barely escaped with his life, but has com- 
pletely recovered. 

Delavan Richardson, 2. Reg. (See page 123), 
went with the first Company of soldiers from 
Athol soon after the breaking out of the Rebel- 
lion and was in all the engagements of the 2d 



240 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

Reg. in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, 
particularly at Jackson Va., Front Royal, Win- 
chester, Cedar Mountain, Antietam, Fredericks- 
burg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg; went 
with his Reg. in 18G3 to Tennessee and reenlisted 
in Jan. 1864; returned to his Reg. after a fur- 
lough of fifty days, and went with it in the great 
movement upon Atlanta; was in the battles of 
Resaca, Kenesaw, Peach Tree Creek and about 
Atlanta and after the capture of that City went 
under Gen. Sherman when he made his memora- 
ble march through Georgia and captured Savan- 
nah and through the Carolinas. After the sur- 
render of Johnston's Army, Mr. Richardson re- 
turned to Washington with his Reg. and was 
discharged July 27. 1865 having served about 
four years and three months. This soldier has 
the honor of being one of the two men from 
Athol that were with Gen. Sherman in his Great 
March, and of being the only one of that invin- 
cible army that returned to Athol at the close of 
the war. He was made Corporal at the battle 
of Antietam and Sergeant April 1. 1864. 

Neri F. Ripley, 21. Reg. (See page 125), went 
with his Reg. into service in North Carolina and 
was engaged at the capture of Roanoke Island 
but was sick at the time Newbern was captured. 
Being unfit for duty he was discharged Dec. 22. 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 241 

1862, and died at Winchendon Jan. 16. 1863, of 
an abscegis in the stoniacli brought on in the ser- 
vice. Mr. Ripley left a wife and two children in 
Winchendon but his remains were brought to 
Athol for interment. 

Harvey Robbins, 27. Reg. (See page 128), was 
among the recruits that joined this Reg. in N. 
Carolina in 1862 in season to be in the battles at 
Kinston, Whitehall and Goldsboro' and also in 
the defence of Washington N. Carolina. His 
health was generally good but he was taken sick 
and died of a fever at Newbern June 29. 1863. 
Mr. Robbins left in Athol a wife and four children. 

William J. Rogers, 36. Reg. (See page 131), 
joined his Reg. in the autumn of 1864 in front 
of Petersburg and was first in battle Sept. 30 
when the 9th Corps to which the 36. Reg. be- 
longed was repulsed with considerable loss. Du- 
ring the wdnter Mr. Rogers did garrison and 
picket duty in and about the Forts near Peters- 
burg, particularly at Fort Rice and was on picket 
when the assault was made April 1. 1865 which 
was followed by the capture of Petersburg and 
Richmond and the surrender of Lee's Army. 
Mr. Rogers was discharged with his Reg. June 
8. 1865 and returned home in health. 



242 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

Emory Sawin, 36. Reg. (See page 131), joined 
the Reg. at Worcester and went with it to tlie 
seat of war in Virginia, and to Lexington Ken- 
tucky and later to recruit the army of Gen. 
Grant at Vicksburg ; was in the fight at Jackson 
Miss, and other movements in that region till af- 
ter Vicksburg fell ; returned with his Reg. to 
Crab Orchard Kentucky Avhere he was sick two 
months ; was in the Hospital at Camp Nelson 
two months ; three months in the Hospital at 
Portsmouth Grove R. I. and four months on duty 
there; was on duty nine months in Providence 
R. I. and two and one half months in Albany N. 
Y. and was discharged Aug. 11. 1865, the three 
years of his enlistment having expired. 

Lewis H. Sawin, Navy, (See page 135), son of 
the above, entered the Navy in the Spring of 
1862 and was attached during the whole period 
of his enlistment to the U. S. Ship Sonoma of 1000 
tons that went from Portsmouth Navy Yard into 
service in James River Va. where Mr. Sawin re- 
mained till after the retirement of Gen. McClel- 
lan from the Peninsula in 1862. The Sonoma 
then went to the West Indies and after a cruise 
of nine months came North for repairs. After 
these were completed, Mr. Sawin sailed from 
New York to take part in the blockade of Charles- 
ton S. C. and the Sonoma remained in that ser- 



PEESONAL HISTORY. 243 

vice till the three years of his enlistment had 
expired. He was discharged March 6. 1885, 
having taken part in the capture of three prizes 
at the West Indies and one off Charleston. 

Charles Sears, 27. Reg. (See page 128), joined 
his Reg;, in North Carolina as a recruit in 1862 
in season to be in the engagements at Kinston, 
Whitehall and Goldsboro'. Mr. Sears was also 
ens^au^ed durina; the defence of Washing-ton N. 
C. and in the fight at Gum Swamp. While the 
Reg. was in Virginia he had charge of a planta- 
tion nine miles from Norfolk for a time and had 
the Small Pox there. Recovering he was in the 
eng-ag-ement at Port Walthall and Arrowfield 
Church — and was carrying rations to the men 
when so many of his Reg. were captured at 
Drury's Bluff. Mr. Sears was afterwards in the 
battles at Coal Harbor and before Petersburg; 
and was discharged with the expiration of his 
term of service Sept. 27. 1864. 

Cutler Seaver, 42. Reg. (See page 140), en- 
listed for 100 days service without bounty and 
went with his Reg. to Great Falls Md. where he 
renuiined doing garrison duty till the term for 
which he had enlisted expired. He was dis- 
charged Nov. 15. 1864, but soon reentered the 
service and went into Camp at Readville where 
he was soon taken sick and died. 



244 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

George R. Severance, 21. Reg. (See page 125), 
went with his Reg to Annapolis and into service 
in North Carolina, w^as in the engagements at 
Roanoke Island and at Newbern, but in what 
other battles or when or why he was discharged 
is unknown. 

W. A. Shepardson, 21. Reg. (See page 125), 
went with his Reg. into service in North Carolina 
but no material facts in his history as a soldier 
from Athol have been ascertained. 

Albert Simonds, 27. Reg. (See page 128), was 
among the recruits that joined this Reg. in North 
Carolina in the Autumn of 1862; was in the 
battles at Kinston, Whitehall and Goldsboro' and' 
assisted in the defence of Washington N. C. and 
when the 27. Reg. was removed to Virginia in 
1863 he was detailed to guard prisoners at Nor- 
folk and continued to serve in this capacity till 
the time of his discharge Sept. 27. 1864 when 
he returned home in comfortable health. 

Charles A. Simonds, 11. U. S. Inf (See page 
135), son of the above, went into the service in 
1861 and was a Musician; was six months at 
Perryville Md. and had the Measles ; recovering 
went with his Reg. to Alexandria and then into 
the Peninsular Campaign under Gen. McClellan ; 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 245 

was first in battle in six of the seven days con- 
flict before Richmond and afterwards at Bull Run 
No. 2. at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and at 
Gettysburg where he was detailed for three 
weeks' service in the Hospital as nurse ; soon af- 
ter which he was transferred to the Band and 
sent to Fort Independence Boston Harbor where 
he served till the three years of his enlistment 
had expired. He was discharged Oct. 3. 1864. 

William 0. Simonds, 11. U. S. Inf (See page 
135), brother of the above, went with him into 
service in Maryland and Virginia, had the 
Measles but recovered and was in the Peninsular 
Campaign under Gen. McClellan and especially 
'was in six of the seven days battles before Rich- 
mond ; was in the 2d Bull Run fight and in the 
engagements at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, 
and Gettysburg and later in the Campaign un- 
der Gen. Grant as he moved towards Richmond ; 
was taken prisoner in the battle of the Wilder- 
ness ; was marched to Lynchburg and thence to 
Danville and a little later to Andersonville ; 
thence he was removed to Charleston where 
with the imprisoned Union Officers he was ex- 
posed to the fire of our Navy for one week, 
which was the best part of his imprisonment be- 
cause he had enough to eat; then he was re- 
moved to the prison at Florence S. C. where he 



246 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

remained four months with but little food and 
little clothing and with the Camp Fever to add 
to his sufferings ; was at length started for Salis- 
bury N. C. but was taken to Richmond, paroled 
and sent to Annapolis for exchange and reached 
home in Feb. 1865 in comfortable health, having 
served three years and six months. At Gains- 
ville a ball penetrated his blanket which was 
folded over his heart and passed through his 
coat and shirt and left a black spot upon his 
flesh ; and at Gettysburg he was slightly 
wounded. 

Henry N. Smith, 1. H. Artillery, (See page 
134), went into service in 1863 but was in no 
engagement of considerable importance till May 
1864. In the battle of Spottsylvania Mr. Smith 
was taken prisoner but the particulars of his suf- 
ferings and escape it has been impossible to learn. 
Nothing could be heard of him for many months 
but after great exposure he regained his liberty, 
rejoined his Regiment at Burkesville Va. and 
was mustered out of service with it. 

Warren E. Smith, 53. Reg. (See page 123), 
went with his Reg. to Louisiana, and was in the 
engagement at the capture of Fort Bisland and 
in other service in that vicinity ; was sent sick 
to Brashear City from Vermillionville La. ; re- 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 247 

joined his Company Aug. 9. and returned with it 
to Athol Aug. 24 1863, feeble but recovering. 

Henry Smith, 27. Reg. (See page 128), was 
one of the recruits of 1862 that joined the Reg. 
in North Carohna, was Orderly for Col. Lee and 
served in this capacity in various expeditions 
but after the capture of his Colonel served for a 
time in the ranks. Mr. Smith reenlisted in Jan. 
1864 but had his furlough later than his com- 
rades and did not return to his Reg. He is sup- 
posed to have taken up his residence in Canada. 

Joseph C.Smith, 27. Reg. (See page 128), went 
with his Reg. into service in North Carolina ; was 
teamster and sick at the capture of Roanoke Is- 
land, but on duty at Newbern, Kinston, White- 
hall and Goldsboro', also at the Siege of Wash- 
ington, but his health fiiling he was discharged 
April 13. 1863. 

Hubbard V. Smith, 2. Reg. (See page 123), 
was among the first to join the army from Athol 
at the breaking out of the Rebellion, and went 
with his Reg. into service on the Upper Poto- 
mac ; was in the Shenandoah Campaign under 
Gen. Banks, and May 25. 1862 in the engage- 
ment near Strasburg Va. he was wounded, just 
as our troops were retreating. A Minie ball 



248 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

entered his body just above the right hip and 
passed so nearly through him that it was ex- 
tracted above the left hip. An hour later he 
was taken prisoner and kept two weeks at Win- 
chester, when the rebels being obliged to retreat, 
he was paroled for exchange. Seven weeks 
later he was removed to the Hospital at Har- 
per's Ferry and a week later, that place being 
about to fall into the hands of the rebels, he w^as 
sent to Annapolis. In Oct. 1862 he so far re- 
covered as to be able to come home and was 
discharged Jan. 1. 18G3. Mr. Smith was but 
partially recovered, and is still a great sufferer. 

Henry H. Southland, 53. Reg. (See page 133), 
went with his Reg. to Louisiana and Feb. 1. 1863 
was detailed as Pioneer of Company E. Mr. 
Southland was left sick at Baton Rouge April 1. 
1863 and was not able to rejoin the Company 
till Aug. 9. at which date he did so and returned 
with his Reg. Aug. 24. 1863, in comfortable 
health. 

John W. Sprague, 12. Reg. (See page 124), 
enlisted July 1. 1861 and was engaged for nearly 
a year with his Reg. guarding the fords of the 
Potomac. Later he was in the battles of Thor- 
roughfare Gap, Bull Run No. 2. Chantilly, South 
Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancel- 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 249 

lorsville and Gettysburg ; was sick with Chronic 
Diarrhoea nearly a year, but was on duty nearly 
( all of the time ; was struck on the left shoulder 
at Bull Run by a ball that drew blood and pro- 
duced a large contusion but was not very se- 
verely wounded ; was taken prisoner the first 
day of the contest at Gettysburg and was 
marched from that place to Richmond 240 miles 
in 22 days, with but little to eat beside the 
grain plucked from the road side as the pris- 
oners passed along ; was confined in the rebel 
prison at Belle Island nearly six months and 
suffered there beyond description ; was paroled 
Dec. 28. 1863 but the men were so feeble that 
it took from 9 o'clk in the morning till dark for 
them to cross the city Richmond 2i miles and 
some of them made the journey upon their 
hands and knees for more than half of the dis- 
tance ; reached Annapolis Dec. 29. and was 
exchanged in May 1864. but remained after 
recovering his strength to assist at the Hospital 
till July 1. 1864 when he was discharged. Mr. 
Sprague is now, Jan. 1866, a Police Officer on 
duty in Boston. 

Peter Stanton, 53. Reg. (See page 133), went 
with his Reg. to Louisiana and after being in the 
engagement at Fort Bisland was sent from Ope- 
lousas to Brashear City May 5. 1863 wounded 



250 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

in the finger by the accidental discharge of his 
musket; rejoined his Comp. Aug. 11. and re- 
turned with it Aug. 24. 1863. Later Mr. Stan- 
ton reentered the service in the 4th H. Artil- 
ler}^, but was discharged as unfit for service 
before the Reg. left for the seat of war. 

George W. Stevens, 3. Heavy Artillery (See 
page 133), entered the service Jan. 1. 1803 and 
was employed all of the time on garrison duty 
in the various Forts near Washington till the 
close of the war. Mr. Stevens was nuistered 
out of the service Sept. 18. 1865 and returned 
to Athol in health. 

Harrison Stockwell, 53. Reg. (See page 133), 
went with the Reg. to Louisiana but was left 
sick at Camp Kearney Carrollton March 6. 1863. 
Mr. Stockwell rejoined his Company when the 
sick were collected Aug. 11. and returned with 
it Aug. 24. 1863. 

Spencer Stockwell, 53. Reg. (See page 133), 
went with his Company into Camp at Groton 
Junction, but was soon taken sick with the 
Diphtheria and died there Nov. 20. 1862. His 
remains were brought to Athol for burial, and 
his funeral was attended by a very large con- 
course of people in the Church of the Evangeli- 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 251 

cal Society, Nov. 23. 1862. This was the first 
death in Company E, 53. Reg. 

Henry H. Stratton, 53. Reg. (See page 133), 
went into service in Louisiana and after being: 
with his Reg. in all its previous engagements 
and marches up to June 14. 1863. was wounded 
in the head in the assault of that day upon Port 
Hudson, and was sent to St Louis Hospital at 
New Orleans. Recovering, he rejoined his Com- 
pany Aug. 7. and returned with it in health to 
Athol Aug. 24. 1863. 

Frederic A. Stratton, 53. Reg. and 56. (See 
page 133), was in the Regular Army for seven 
months in 1860; was made Corporal in Co. E 
53. Reg. Oct. 17. 1862 and was with his Resc. at 
Fort Bisland, and in all its marches and engage- 
ments till after the fall of Port Hudson when he 
was sent sick to Baton Roui^e. Mr. Stratton 
came with the sick in the St. Mary's to New 
York and reached home Aug. 20. 1864. He 
reentered the service in the 56. Reg. in Feb. 
1865, and was engaged in the battles which 
ended in the capture of Petersburg in April. 
May 1. 1865 he was detailed Orderly for Medi- 
ical Director Dr. Adams and served till dis- 
charged with his Reg. July 22. 1865. 



252 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

Florence Sullivan, 1. H. Artillery (See page 
134), was with his Reg. in 1864. in the battles 
at Spottsylvania Court House, No. Anna, Tolo- 
potomy. Coal Harbor, before Petersburg in June 
18G4., at Strawberry Plains and Deep Bottom, 
in the last of which Aug. 16. 1864 he was severely 
wounded by a ball that passed through his left 
thio"h and into the ley; of a comrade behind him. 
Recovering, he took part in the Weldon R. Road 
Raid at Hatcher's Run and in the capture of 
Petersburg. He was discharged with his Reg. 

Charles E. Taft, 21. Reg. (See page 125), 
joined the Reg. early in 1864 and went into ser- 
vice in Virginia ; was sick one month at Wash- 
ington ; was first under fire at the explosion of 
the Mine in front of Petersburg July 30. ; was 
in the Weldon Rail Road eno-ag-ement and in 
the fig:ht at Peo-ram Farm and when the Rebels 
charged upon and took Fort Steadman ; was in 
the great battles near Petersburg in April 1865 
and a few days later when the rebel army was 
defeated below Richmond and surrendered. Mr. 
Taft was mustered out of the U. S. Service July 
13. 1865. 

CUnton Teel, 4. H. Artillery (See page 135), 
enlisted for and served one year ; was engaged 
during the whole period of his service doing 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 253 

garrison duty in the various Forts in and about 
Washington and was discharged, in health, July 
17. 1865. 

George L. Tenney, 5. Reg. (See page 123), 
enlisted for, and served 100 days and was em- 
ployed during the period of his service in doing 
garrison duty in and near Baltimore. 

Horace 0. Thayer, 56. Reg. (See page 134), 
went into camp with this Reg. at Readville in 
the autumn of 1863 but before it went to the 
seat of war was taken sick of Brain Fever and 
died at Readville Feb. 2. 1864, after a sickness 
of five days. His remains were brought to 
Athol for interment and buried from the Metho- 
dist Episcopal Church Feb. 7. 1864. 

Lauriston A. Thorpe, 27. Reg. (See page 128), 
went with his Reg. into service in North Caro- 
lina and after being engaged in the battles at 
Roanoke Island, Newbern and other places was 
sent to the Hospital sick. Recovering, Mr. 
Thorpe was detailed as nurse in the Foster Gen. 
Hospital at Newbern where he served one year 
or more when he was transferred to the Dispen- 
sary of the same Hospital. In this he served 
about one year when the period of his enlist- 
ment expired. The Yellow Fever was prevail- 



254 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

ing at Newbern and the ship upon which Mr. 
Thorpe embarked for home was sent into Quar- 
antine at Fortress Monroe, and there he died of 
this disease Oct. 7. 1864, while his friends were 
looking most anxiously for his return. Funeral 
services were attended in the Methodist Episco- 
pal Church Oct. 23. 1864. 

William L. Thrower, 53. Reg. (See page 133), 
went wdth his Reg. to Louisiana but was left 
sick at Baton Rouge April 1. 1863; recovered 
to rejoin his Company July 14. and returned 
with it in comfortable health Aug. 24. 1863. 

Robert W. Thrower, 27. Reg. (See page 128), 
went with his Reg. to North Carolina; was in 
the battle at Roanoke Island, but was sick and 
on board a transport at the battle of Newbern, 
was landed at Newbern and died there of a 
Lung Fever March 31. 1862. Mr. Thrower was 
buried at Newbern. 

Charles Tilden, 30. Reg. (See page 129), en- 
listed Nov. 7. 1861, but was discharged at Camp 
Chase Lowell Dec. 15. of the same year. Cause, 
Disability. 

Edward L. Townsend, 2. Reg. (See page 123), 
was among the first to enlist from Athol and 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 255 

went with his Reg. to the Upper Potomac ; was 
encjaijed durino; Gen. Banks's advance and re- 
treat in the Shenandoah Vallej and in the battle 
at Antietam ; soon after which he was transferred 
at his own request to the 4th U. S. Artillery in 
which he served till the time of his enlistment 
expired. Up to Jan. 1864 he had been wounded 
five times. 

George D. Townsend, 27. Reg. (See page 128), 
went with his P^eg. to N. Carolina ; was in the 
battles at Roanoke Island, Kinston, Whitehall and 
Goldsboro', assisted in the defence of Washing- 
ton N. C. ; Reenlisted Jan. 1864, and was sick 
till Jan. 1865. ; returned to his Reg. to be taken 
prisoner in the conflict near Kinston N. C. 
March 8. ; was paroled for exchange and dis- 
charged at Annapolis June 15. 1865. 

Henry T. Townsend, 32. Reg. (See page 130), 
enlisted in Feb. 1862 in what was then the 1st 
Battalion at Fort Warren, but his health failing 
he was discharged June 21. of the same year, 
soon after his Reg. had left for the seat of war. 

Harlan P. Townsend, 53. Reg. (See page 133), 
was detailed as Assistant Cook of Company E Oct. 
1862 and went with the Reg. to Louisiana; re- 
turned to the ranks March 1. 1863 and was with 



256 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

the Reg. participating in all its marches and the 
captures of Fort Bisland and Port Hudson and 
came home in health with his Company Aug. 24. 
1863. 

WilHam I. Turner, 5. Reg. (See page 123), en- 
listed for and served 100 days ; and during the 
period of his enlistment was employed doing 
garrison duty in the Forts in and near Balti- 
more. 

Nathaniel B. Twichell, 27. Reg. (See page 
128), joined his Reg. in North Carolina as one of 
the recruits of 1862 ; was in the engagements 
at Kinston, Whitehall, Goldsboro', the siege of 
Washington N. C. and at Gum Swamp ; was 
made Corporal Feb. 20. 1863 ; reenlisted Jan. 
1864 and had a furlough ; returned to his Reg. 
to be in the engagement at Port Walthall Ya. 
and at Arrowfield Church, was killed in the last 
mentioned by a ball that struck his head, dying 
instantly and leaving in Athol a wife and two 
children. Mrs. Twichell lost one brother in the 
Hospital at N. Orleans and another a prisoner at 
Andersonville. Mr. Twichell was killed May 9. 
1864. 

Willard Twichell, 11. U. S. Inf (See page 135), 
joined this Reg. early in the war ; was cook but 



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was in all the battles with his musket ; was in 
six of the seven days conflicts before Richmond 
in 1862, also at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville 
and Gettysburg, was in the battles of the Wil- 
derness, Spottsylvania, No. Anna and was killed 
in the engagement June 24. 1864 before Peters- 
burg. A ball passed through his abdomen June 
24. and he died June 27. 

Charles H. Tyler, 53. Reg. (See page 133), 
went with his Reg. to Louisiana and was in the 
fight at the capture of Fort Bisland ; marched 
with the Reg. to Opelousas but w^as sent from 
that place sick to Brashear City May 5. 1863 : 
was taken prisoner at Brashear City June 23. ; 
went to Ship Island July 9. ; returned to N. Or- 
leans and rejoined his Reg. Aug. 11. and came 
home with it, feeble but recovering, Aug. 24. 
1863. 

Freeman H. Walker, 53. Reg. (See page 133), 
went with his Reg. into service in Louisiana ; was 
in the battle at Fort Bisland and in the marches 
to Alexandria and to Port Hudson ; was sent 
from before Port Hudson June 6. to Baton Rouge 
sick ; embarked on board the St. Mary's for N. 
York and arrived Aug. 14. Mr. Walker reached 
Athol. Aug. 20. 1863, feeble but recovering. 



258 PEESONAL HISTORY. 

David Walker, 53. Reg. (See page 133), went 
to Louisiana and was with the Reg. in all its bat- 
tles and marches from the movement upon the 
enemy near Fort Bisland to the capture of Port 
Hudson and returned in health Aug. 24. 1863. 

Ransom Ward, 79. U. S. (Col.) Inf (See page 
137), was engaged in the winter of 1862 in the 
secret service of the Government in Kansas and 
in the summer of the same year was commis- 
sioned Captain of Co. H. 1. Kansas Colored In- 
fantry, now designated the 79 U. S. Infantry. 
This was the first colored Reg. armed and put 
into the field with the U. S. forces, and no Reg. 
at the West has ranked higher for efficiency and 
discipline. Capt. Ward led his men honorably 
in the following engagements : Island Mound, 
Sherwood Mission, Cabin Creek, Honey Springs, 
Poison Springs, Flat Rock near Fort Gibson and 
at the capture of Fort Smith. Most of these en- 
gagements were in the Indian Territory. Capt. 
Ward was discharged Nov. 9. 1865, worn out with 
his hard service but gaining. His Brother, Lieut. 
Col. Gardner Ward, formerly of Athol, com- 
manded the 79. U. S. Reo^. 



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Jonathan D. Ward, 21. Reg. (See page 125), 
went with his Reg. to N. Carolina and was in 
the engagements at Roanoke Island and New- 



PERSONAL HISTOEY. 259 

bern, when he was taken sick with a Fever which 
rendered him unfit for duty and he was dis- 
charged Jan. 22. 1863. Mr. Ward probably 
counted upon the quota of Orange but his home 
for a number of years has been in Athol. 

William Washburn, 36. Reg. (See page 131), 
was with his Reg. in Maryland, Virginia, Ken- 
tucky, Ohio and at the siege of Vicksburg. After 
the surrender of Vicksburg he returned with his 
Reg. to Kentucky ; and was sick with the Dumb 
Ague, at Camp Park near Nicholasville Ky. 
where he died after a sickness of 10 days. The 
date of his death is Sept. 5. 1863. He left in 
Athol a wife and five children. 

Oscar Washburn, 27. Reg. (See page 128), 
son of the above, joined the Reg. at Norfolk af- 
ter the close of its first North Carolina Cam- 
paigns ; went with it to Suffolk and Yorktown, 
was sick three months, falling out on the march 
to Coal Harbor ; was detailed Orderly for Sur- 
geon Williams and discharged July 17. 1865. 

Theodore Washburn, 27. Reg. (See page 128), 
went with his Reg. for the Town of Phillipston, 
into service in N. Carolina having had the Mea- 
sles at Annapolis; was engaged at Roanoke Is- 
land and Newbern, also in the defence of Wash- 



260 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

ington N. C. and at Gum Swamp ; reenlisted for 
Athol ; was kept on duty at Norfolk while the 
Campaign of 1864 was in progress in Va. was 
taken prisoner near Kinston March 8. 1865, but 
was soon paroled at Richmond and sent to An- 
napolis, where he was discharged in health June 
15. 1866. 



Horace K. Weaver, 32. Reg. (See page 130), 
went with his Reg. from Fort Warren to Wash- 
ington and Harrison's Landing Va. was in the 
battles at Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellors- 
ville and Gettysburg; moved under Gen, Grant 
in May 1864 ; was in the battle of the Wilder- 
ness and was sunstruck during the engagement 
at Spottsylvania. Recovering Mr. Weaver was 
in various other engagements of less importance 
till the three years of his enlistment had ex- 
pired, and he was mustered out of the service 
Nov. 26. 1864. 

Maxon R. Wetherby, 15. Reg. (See page 124), 
was drafted in 1863, held to serve and reported 
for duty ; joined his Reg. Aug. 15. in Virginia 
and was with it in various services in that State 
till he was discharged. 

Edmund R. West, 24. Reg. (See page 126). 
This soldier is known to have gone into service 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 261 

in the 24. Reg. from Athol, and to have served 
at Roanoke Island and in other engagements in 
N. Carolina ; to have gone with his Reg. to Mor- 
ris' Island and to have been engaged there and 
to have gone to St. Augustine Florida where he 
was taken prisoner, Dec. 30. 1863, since which 
date nothing has been heard of him by those in 
charge of this Record, tho' diligent inquiry has 
been made. E. West, Comp. A. 24th Reg. died 
a prisoner at Andersonville Ga., May 24. 1864, 
and the No. of his grave is 1334. There is 
reason to suppose this refers to E. R. West, whose 
history is here given. 

E. Whipple Whitney, 27. Reg. (See page 128), 
was one of the company of recruits that joined 
this Reg. in N. Carolina in the autumn of 1862 
and went on the Expedition to Kinston, Whitehall 
and Goldsboro'. Mr. Whitney had been but a 
little time in service before he was unfitted for 
duty by an injury to one of his eyes and later 
by the permanent disabling of one of his fingers 
and he was discharged Aug. 15. 1863. After his 
return home he was unable to labor for many 
months. 

Chandler Whitney, 30. Reg. (See page 129), 
went into camp with this Reg. in Pittsfield but 
died Feb. 1. 1862 after an illness of three weeks. 



262 PEESONAL HISTORY. 

His remains were brought to Athol for interment 
and he left a wife in this town. 

Alfred G. Williams, 11. Reg. (See page 123), 
was appointed Assistant Surgeon of this Reg. and 
joined it in Virginia; was on duty during the 
battles at Williamsburg, Hanover Court House, 
the 2d engagement at Fair Oaks, at Savage's 
Station, Willis Church and then at Malvern Hill, 
but his health failing, he resigned and was dis- 
charged Aug. 18. 1862 with the most honorable 
testimonials. Jan. 27. 1863 he reentered the 
service as a Contract Surgeon and was assigned 
to the Plospital Boat, Nashville, on the Mississippi 
River, where he remained till ill health ag-ain 
compelled him to request his discharge. This 
part of his service lasted four months. His last 
service was rendered at Elmira New York as a 
Surgeon in the Hospital of rebel prisoners and 
this continued for the period of six months, when 
Dr. Williams returned to Athol, but has more re- 
cently removed to No. Adams. 

Nelson G. Wood, 27. Reg. (See page 128), 
joined his Reg. as one of the recruits of 1862 
and was with it in the eno-ao^ements at Kinston, 
Whitehall, Goldsboro', as well as in the defence 
of Washington N. C. and at Gum Swamp ; went 
with his Reg. into service in Virginia; was in the 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 263 

engagements at Port Walthall and Arrowfield 
Church and AVas killed in the latter, May 9. 1864. 
Mr. Wood with others of his Company was lying 
on the ground when he was struck by a shot and 
died instantly. He was buried near by. 

George B. Wood, 53. Reg. (See page 133), 
went with his Reg. into camp at Groton Junction 
and with it to New York ; was sick there and re- 
moved to Shutesbury his native town where he 
died Jan. 2. 1863 having been discharged from 
the service the day before. He was buried at 
Shutesbury. 

Thomas A. Woodward, 30. Reg. (See page 
129), went with his Reg. under Gen. Butler to 
Louisiana and was with it in the capture of New 
Orleans and in much other service in that De- 
partment including the Capture of Port Hudson. 
Mr. Woodward reenlisted in 1864 and was with 
his Reg. in the Campaigns in Virginia which re- 
sulted in the fall of Richmond. He is at this 
time (Jan. 1866.) still in service in the vicinity 
of Richmond. 

Asa Wyman, 36. Reg. (See page 131), went 
with his Reg. into service in Va. and with it to 
Kentucky, Ohio and Mississippi ; was in the en- 
gagement at Jackson and in service back of 



264 PERSONAL HISTORY. 

Vicksburg till after its surrender; was sent in 
the sick boat np the Mississippi and removed to 
Annapolis where he died of a Fever and Chronic 
Diarrhoea May 3. 1864. Mr, Wyman was for a 
considerable period cook for his Company. 

Morgan Young, 21. Reg. (See page 125), was 
an old soldier having been for five years in the 
Regular Army and engaged in the war in Flori- 
da; went with the 21. Reg. to N. Carolina and 
was in the engagements at Roanoke Island, New- 
bern and Camden ; was in the 2d Bull Run bat- 
tle and afterward in service in Kentucky and 
Tennessee ; was sick a part of the time ; offered 
to reenlist but did not pass the requisite exami- 
nation and finally served out the three years of 
his enlistment as Cook in some Hospital. 



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